constitutive

Criticism has similarly its three constitutive factors, rationalism, subjectivism, immanence.

They are a priori conditions, subjective in one sense, but objective as being universal, necessary and constitutive of experience.

But as ideas,18 though of a type quite apart,19 they have also a constitutive application to reality.

To take a phrase from Professor Dewey, reason, for Spinoza, is reconstructive not constitutive.

This constitutive mode of relatedness is, however, just taken for granted.

Today, it is constitutive, in the sense that it not only records news, it makes news.

A certain theory is seen to be essential to the fact, a certain theology to be the constitutive force in the religion.

Though not constitutive, yet are they regulative principles.

It is imprinted with the degree of necessity that made such a medium a constitutive part of the experience.

The elements of God and creation are in the most ultimate and primitive act of reason, and therefore in its constitutive idea.