Definition of "overdetermined" []

• Which suffers so many constraints that it has no solution. (adjective)
• Which has more equations than variables. (adjective)
• Be determined by multiple causes in such a way that any of the causes on its own would be sufficient to account for the effect. (adjective)

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• "Also, for what it is worth, the word overdetermined always has connotations of Althusser for me."
• "It seems to me that this clarifies the expression overdetermined contradiction, which I have put forward, this specifically because the existence of overdetermination is no longer"
• "I think in mathematics they call that "overdetermined"."