determine
verb (used with object)
to conclude or ascertain, as after reasoning, observation, etc.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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I am investigating in the abstract, and am determining what is in itself right and true.
From The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin by John Henry Newman