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Re: Overdetermination
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Alan, It's unclear to me what you're asking for in the way of examples. Examples of overdetermination in the causes of other greater or lesser historical events? Or examples of the concept of overdetermination within Ayers' book? In any case, yes, I do feel that "overdetermination" is a fair synonym for Ayer's term "deep contingency".

Ayers wrote, "An argument for deep contingency is based on the simple principle that the best explanation reckons with the most information. Simple explanations that ignore complication in an impatient determination to get to the bottom line or root cause are worse than useless. They give the false impression that we have explained something when we have not." Well, yes! That is a pretty good explanation of the term overdetermination as used within social context, imo.

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