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Meanings of regulative in English

Restricting according to rules or principles.

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Sensualism, therefore, at least as regulative hypothesis, if not as heuristic principle.
Beyond Good and Evil
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The second regulative idea of speculative reason is the conception of the universe.
The Critique of Pure Reason
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A regulative principle must, therefore, have been at the foundation of this opinion.
The Critique of Pure Reason
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First is the regulative body itself: who will do it?
Reuters
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For a man's idea of God is fundamental, regulative of all his religious thinking.
The Teaching of Jesus
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They form an inevitable regulative postulate in every one's thinking.
The Meaning of Truth
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His conception of redemption was regulative of all his thought.
The World's Great Sermons, Volume 10: Drummond to Jowett, and Ge...
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Nitric oxide is a regulative molecule with important roles in the olfactory system of vertebrates.
Pubmed
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However, from the nobility downwards, the regulative discipline was much reinforced by this change in government.
Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation
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The psychological idea is, therefore, meaningless and inapplicable, except as the schema of a regulative conception.
The Critique of Pure Reason
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In Jean Valjean, conscience is regulative, creative, constructive.
A Hero and Some Other Folks
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Only so will he become completely autonomous, self-regulative.
Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic
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The regulative principle is the relation of supply to demand; and the employers have not this power.
System of Economical Contradictions; Or, The Philosophy of Miser...
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PMID: 22469920 Nitric oxide is a regulative molecule with important roles in the olfactory system of vertebrates.
Pubmed
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The Senate thus forms the regulator of the whole judicial system, but its action is merely regulative.
Russia
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For nature is properly the only object presented to us, in regard to which reason requires regulative principles.
The Critique of Pure Reason
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