Overview
overdetermination
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An event is overdetermined if there exist more than one antecedent events, any of which would be a sufficient condition for the event occurring. Analogously, a conclusion is overdetermined if it can be proved in any of a number of independent ways. The concept is employed by Freud to describe the possibility of multiple causes and interpretations of dreams.
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