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REGULATIVE
REGULATIVE
Reg
"u *
la
*tive (
rg
"*l *
tv
), a.
1.
Tending
to
regulate;
regulating.
Whewell.
2. (Metaph.)
Defn:
Necessarily
assumed
by
the
mind
as
fundamental
to
all
other
knowledge;
furnishing
fundamental
principles;
as,
the
regulative
principles,
or
principles a
priori;
the
regulative
faculty.
Sir
W.
Hamilton.
Note:
These
terms
are
borrowed
from
Kant,
and
suggest
the
thought,
allowed
by
Kant,
that
possibly
these
principles
are
only
true
for
the
human
mind,
the
operations
and
belief
of
which
they
regulate.
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