All 4 Uses of
indeterminate
in
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- Through multiplication upon multiplication of facts, information, theories and hypotheses, it is science itself that is leading mankind from single absolute truths to multiple, indeterminate, relative ones.†
Part 2 *
- In a laboratory situation, when your whole procedure goes haywire, when everything goes wrong or is indeterminate or is so screwed up by unexpected results you can't make head or tail out of anything, you start looking laterally.†
Part 2
- They aren't at one, they aren't at zero, they're in an indeterminate state that has no meaning in terms of ones or zeros.†
Part 3
- When your answer to a test is indeterminate it means one of two things: that your test procedures aren't doing what you think they are or that your understanding of the context of the question needs to be enlarged.†
Part 3
Definitions:
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(1)
(indeterminate) unknown or uncertain
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Specialized definitions:
Mathematics: without numeric meanings (as in 0 divided by itself); or having infinite solutions
Botany: having a capacity to continue to grow at the apex