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ascertain

verb acquire information, acquire intelliience about, adjudge, arrive at a conclusion, assure oneeelf, become acquainted with, certify, clear from obscurity, clear of doubt, clear of obscurity, cognoscere, come to a conclusion, come to know, conclude, confirm, decide, decipher, deduce, derive, descry, determine, disentangle, draw a conclusion, establish, establish with certainty, fathom, ferret out, figure out, find, find out, find out exactly, find the answer, find the solution, learn about, make certain, make oneself acquainted with, make sure, prove, ravel, reassure oneself, remove doubt, render certain, render definite, resolve, satisfy oneself, solve, unearth, unravel, unriddle, unscramble, untangle, verify
Associated concepts: ascertain loss, ascertained by law

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In its pure form, originalism treats constitutional meaning as ascertainably fixed, either by the original understanding of the constitutional language or the "intent" of the Framers in drafting that language, which arguably may be the same thing.

Forensic constitutional interpretation

By his talk of experiences which disappoint hypotheses Peirce must mean such as are had under ascertainably adequate conditions, that is to say, under conditions which make it reasonable to treat them as veridical.