constitutive

Speech parts

1. constitutive - Adjective

2. constitutive - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Tending or assisting to constitute or compose; elemental; essential.

Having power to enact, establish, or create; instituting; determining.

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Examples

In the general tendency toward specialization, philosophy too has established itself as a specialized discipline, one purified of all specific content. In so doing, philosophy has denied its own constitutive concept: the intellectual freedom that does not obey the dictates of specialized knowledge. Theodor Adorno

Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art. Michel Foucault

The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The gesture that divides madness is the constitutive one, not the science that grows up in the calm that returns after the division has been made. Michel Foucault

Affected as they are by a constitutive solipsism, philosophies can say everything about the world they design and very little about the world they help to construct. Umberto Eco

A distinctive and constitutive feature of cyberspace is that no central entity exercises control over all the networks that make up this new domain. Source: Internet

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