单词 | regulative |
释义 | regulativeadj. 1. a. That regulates or controls; regulatory. ΘΚΠ society > authority > control > [adjective] > regulating regulative1599 ordinant1604 ordinative1605 well-ordering1619 regulating1628 regulatory1775 1599 T. Blundeville Art of Logike v. i. 116 The principles regulatiue of a Syllogisme be these two phrases of speech. 1616 R. Betts tr. King James VI & I Remonstr. Right of Kings 87 Where..a certain regitiue, directiue, regulatiue, and ordinatiue authoritie is committed to the Ecclesiasticall power. 1698 R. Ferguson View Ecclesiastick 73 The Atributes of the Divine Being, Anticedently unto, and Regulative of the Placita of His Will. 1711 G. Cary Physician's Phylactic 40 In the Root is a certain Disposition of Nature, from the Influence of which a certain regulative Juice is conveyed to the Branches. 1785 Times 9 June 2/2 He meant it partly to operate as a regulative tax, but not so entirely as to lose the object for which the tax was laid—namely, raising a certain sum. 1847 S. Laing Observ. Amended Railway Regulation Bill 16 The first objection that strikes me is that to the principle upon which the whole regulative part of the Bill is founded. 1860 D. Coleridge in Trans. Philol. Soc. 156 The office of a Dictionary..is eminently regulative... It separates the spurious from the genuine. 1874 J. S. Blackie On Self-culture 9 Logic is not useless; it has a regulative, not a creative virtue. 1912 Q. Jrnl. Econ 26 320 The objective fact of increased or decreased income may exert a regulative effect on the supply of capital. 1943 M. Samuel tr. S. Asch Apostle iii. iii. 649 Now the Halachah , or regulative doctrine, which Paul taught..was founded on the Ten Commandments. 1992 J. M. Kelly Short Hist. Western Legal Theory viii. 306 The economic theory of the time..passed the test which Bentham had enunciated for all state regulative activity. b. Originally and chiefly in Kantian philosophy: (of an idea, principle, maxim, etc.) that governs or directs rational inquiry or action despite being incapable of objective justification. Frequently opposed to constitutive.For Kant, in his Critique of Pure Reason, transcendental Ideas (e.g., the world, the soul, God) have a legitimate and indispensable ‘regulative’ use. For example, he held that the Idea of the world as the complete totality of phenomena serves to direct the mind to seek ever greater systematic unity in its empirical knowledge, but that to suppose such Ideas capable of a ‘constitutive’ use, one that could provide theoretical knowledge of metaphysical objects beyond the reach of experience, is an illusion that leads reason into self-contradiction. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > [adjective] > relating to systems or characteristics of habitual1526 material1628 systematic1666 regulative1798 methodological1849 formala1856 grammatical1874 multivalued1934 fuzzy1964 the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical syllogism > [adjective] > of the principles of regulative1798 1798 A. F. M. Willich Elements Crit. Philos. 150 Regulative principles..are those, which do not determine the objects themselves, but..afford us rules..to search for the objects in question. 1799 tr. I. Kant Metaphysic of Morals I. Introd. p. xiv Conception..constitutes no object of a theoretical cognition that is possible to us, and can absolutely be of no value as a constitutive, but only as a regulative..principle [Ger. regulatives..Princip] of speculative reason. 1816 S. T. Coleridge Statesman's Man. App. E p. xlvii Whether Ideas are regulative only, according to Aristotle and Kant; or likewise Constitutive, and one with the power and Life of Nature. 1846 G. H. Lewes Biogr. Hist. Philos. IV. 112 These ideas are simply regulative: they operate on conceptions as the understanding operates upon sensations. 1879 R. Adamson Philos. Kant 107 The principle [of the intelligibility of Nature]..under which we subsume real experience is not constitutive but regulative, a mere maxim of reason, and subjective. 1903 Mind 12 82 Meaning is inherently regulative... To search for a final statement is to change regulative principles into constitutive entities, and thus to destroy their significance. 1973 B. Magee Popper ii. 27 The truth of a statement..its correspondence to the facts, is a regulative idea. 1998 Diacritics 28 15 It is not a regulative ideal either—empirically unreachable but with an unequivocal teleological content. 2. Biology. Characterized by or involving developmental regulation (regulation n. 5a). Opposed to mosaic adj.1 3. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > mechanism for self-regulation > [adjective] regulatory1855 regulative1899 regulating1902 regulatory1902 1899 Science 10 Mar. 371/1 Regulative processes resulted in the degeneration of abnormally placed tentacles and in the establishment of a normal number of oval tentacles. 1936 Jrnl. Exper. Zool. 74 91 The ability of the separated one-half blastomeres following the first cleavage to produce a one-half of normal size—so-called mosaic eggs—or a whole of one-half size—so-called regulative eggs. 1947 L. B. Arey Developmental Anat. (ed. 5) ix. 161 Even the mosaic egg of a tunicate is regulative before fertilization occurs. 1973 R. Searls in S. J. Coward Developmental Regulation ix. 241 A number of experiments indicate that the limb mesenchyme is completely regulative. 2005 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A 102 5232/2 The key molecular signals present during regulative regeneration could provide a means of generating neurons. Derivatives ˈregulatively adv. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > [adverb] logically1620 logice1707 regulatively1854 society > authority > control > [adverb] > regulatively regulatively1854 1854 H. L. Mansel Man's Concept. Eternity 10 A conception which is speculatively untrue may be regulatively true. 1884 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. III. 1973 It ought not to be hard to answer, whether a belief can be regulatively true, but really false. 1952 Mind 61 554 Principles which function regulatively in ethical inquiry. 1987 Amer. Zoologist 27 581/1 Some embryos were shown to be able to regulatively reproduce missing parts. 1999 Richmond (Va.) Times Disp. (Nexis) 24 Oct. k7 So what he thinks he cannot get legislatively, he proposes to do regulatively. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1599 |
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