Definition of Regulative
1. Adjective. Restricting according to rules or principles. "A regulatory gene"
Definition of Regulative
1. a. Tending to regulate; regulating.
Definition of Regulative
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Regulative
1.
1. Tending to regulate; regulating.
2. 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.
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.
Source: Websters Dictionary
(01 Mar 1998)
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