(Neither do I endorse it, but I grant it for the sake of argument.) I note first that physical closure is at least consistent with interactionism, since physical closure allows causal
overdetermination, even given any plausible principle of causal exclusion (see Kim 1993).
Counterfactual dependence is usually a strong symptom of causal linkage, especially in situations like this where causal
overdetermination and preemption aren't involved.
Correctness is threatened by
overdetermination (as when Schenker forces us to look for certain processes in all music) or under-determination (as when Nattiez demands that we give up our intuitions to achieve an objective analysis).
The resulting unresolved
overdetermination of influences, Powell suggests, produced characters such as Mrs.
In the beginning of her discussion of Little Red Riding Hood and the "wolf," Garber herself proves guilty of exercising what she calls "the
overdetermination of the name" as she italicizes the surnames of Virginia Woolf, Christa Wolf, William Wolff, not to mention the first names of Wolfram Eberhard, Wolfgang Mieder, and Hans-Wolf Jager, each of whom she relates to her discussion of the folk tale.
They come close to this when they state that "There is an irreducible autobiographical flavor to a Marxist's explanation of his/her choice of entry point or, for that matter, his/her commitment to
overdetermination, the Marxist tradition, or anything else.' But they never flesh this out, unpack it, or make it explicit.
He wrote "Contradiction and
Overdetermination" immediately and "On the Materialist Dialectic: On the Unevenness of Origins" in the following year.
Often raised against dualists also, this problem is well known and is essentially one of apparent
overdetermination. The state in which my brain is perceived to stand may be explained either by reference to the mental experience it reflects or by reference to the brain state that was or would have been observed immediately antecedent to it; the neurophysiological regularities in question being as well established as the those linking the mind and the brain.
The grid's final
overdetermination via digital imaging makes these little tiles look no less fragile.
It is a sequence of
overdetermination. As all these factors converge, in a sort of logical descent into hell, human beings begin to "rationally" consider the elimination of the other as a way of saving themselves.
The logic of Freudian compulsion or Zwang is thus premised on a particularly sensitive understanding of the
overdetermination of contradictory behavior, one that privileges or credits the obligations driving that behavior rather than one that critiques its inconsistencies.