Regulative
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Definition of Regulative
noun
- Regulating; tending to regulate.
- Since Kant, a rule showing what we ought to assume, without giving any assurance that the fact to be assumed is true; or a proposition which will lead to the truth if it be true, while if it be false the truth cannot be attained: such, for example, is the rule that we must not despair of answering any question by sufficient investigation.
- A rule of conduct which, if it be pursued, may lead us to our desired end, while, if it be not pursued, that end cannot be attained in any way.
adjective
- Tending to regulate; regulating.
- Necessarily assumed by the mind as fundamental to all other knowledge; furnishing fundamental principles
"the regulative principles, or principles a priori; the regulative faculty."
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