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determinandum Logic and Philol.|dɪˌtɜːmɪˈnændəm|
[a. L. dēterminandum ‘thing to be determined’, neut. of gerundive of dētermināre to determine.]
That part of a proposition (or an expression) which is to be made determinate by a thought-process (or by another part of the expression).
1921W. E. Johnson Logic I. i. 9 The determinandum is defined as what is presented to be determined or characterised by thought or cognition; the determinans as what does characterise or determine in thought that which is given to be determined. 1924Jespersen Philos. Gram. xi. 146 At the outset indefinite and indeterminate,..the subject is..a determinandum which only by means of the predicate becomes a determinatum. 1961[see determinans]. |