Constitutive Sentence Examples

The mathematical principles are constitutive, i.e.

The " form " of a thing constitutes it what it is, and at the same time, therefore, is constitutive of the group to which it belongs.

Once more, it would be possible to forget that Mill's ultimate laws or axioms are not in his view intuitions, nor forms constitutive of the rational order, nor postulates of all rational construction, were it not that he has made the endeavour to establish them on associationist lines.

Its effect upon logic is rather to be seen in the rethinking of the traditional body of logical doctrine in the light of an absolute presupposed as ideal, with the postulate that a regulative ideal must ultimately exhibit itself as constitutive, the justification of the postulate being held to lie in the coherence and all-inclusiveness of the result.

The analogues therefore of metaphysical problems must be sought in physics; particularly that problem of the causes of things for which the Platonic idea and the Peripatetic " constitutive form " had been, each in its turn, received solutions.

It must be carefully distinguished from Kant's " regulative," which refers to knowledge - regulative in contrast to constitutive of knowledge - not to practice.

As contrasted with the first it stood for the necessity of recognizing a universal or ideal element as a constitutive factor in all experience whether cognitive or volitional; as contrasted with the latter for the ultimate unity of subject and object, knowledge and reality, and therefore for the denial of the existence of any thing-in-itself for ever outside the range of experience.

It means that historians recognize the peculiar importance of those beliefs which are constitutive of church agreement; and it finds some support from the philosophical and political associations of ancient " dogma."

It carried out Kant's doctrine of the categories as a priori synthetic principles, but removed the limitation by which Kant denied them any constitutive value except in alliance with experience.

But as ideas,' though of a type quite apart,' they have also a constitutive application to reality.

The point of view is to be modified profoundly by what follows - by the doctrine of the class-concept behind the class, of the form or idea as the constitutive formula of a substance, or, again, by the requirement that an essential attribute must be grounded in the nature or essence of the substance of which it is predicated, and that such attributes alone are admissible predicates from the point of view of the strict ideal of science.

The form which a mathematical science treats as relatively self-subsistent is certainly not the constitutive idea.

We cannot take first principles " as the bare precipitate of a progressively refined analysis " 3 nor on the other as constitutive a.

It is from the human standpoint regulative and only hypothetically or formally constitutive.

But these constitutive measures were not enough; the governing aristocracy for the time being was also directly assailed.

The painting becomes a dance, where artist and artwork are mutually constitutive.

In contrast, it is argued in this paper that legal relations are partly constitutive of reality.

Therefore, programs by themselves are not constitutive of nor sufficient for minds.

It is, within virtue ethics, already conceived of as something of which virtue is at least partially constitutive.

The interesting question is whether what God is in revelation is also constitutive for who God is in self-being.

Equally, they recognize the fundamentally constitutive nature of language.

Being struck by actuality is what we like to regard as constitutive of the actuality of the actual.

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It is evident, however, that if logic deals with conceptions which may be considered constitutive of knowledge as such, and if ethics deals with the harmonious realization of human life, which is the highest known form of existence, both sciences must have a great deal of weight in the settling of the general question of metaphysics.

They have not, therefore, like the categories, any constitutive value, and all attempts at metaphysical construction with the notions or categories of science must be resigned as of necessity hopeless.