regulative

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Definition

From regulate + -ive.

Regulative Principle of Pure Reason in relation to the Cosmological Ideas. — The Critique of Pure Reason, Immanuel Kant
Sensualism, therefore, at least as regulative hypothesis, if not as heuristic principle. — Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
It is because facts are not mere facts, in short, but are the manifestation of a "determining reason and regulative principle" which finds its home in universal intelligence, that knowledge of them can become necessary and general. — Leibniz's New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding: A Critical Exposition, John Dewey

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