ad hocness
English
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Etymology
Noun
ad hocness (uncountable)
- The quality or condition of being ad hoc.
- 2012, Joseph C. Pitt, Marcello Pera, Rational Changes in Science: Essays on Scientific Reasoning[1]:
- They think it necessary to specify a third, heuristic sort of ad hocness.
Further reading
- “ad hocness, ad-hocness, adhocness”, in Google Books Ngram Viewer, (Can we date this quote?)