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from The Century Dictionary.

  • That individualizes: as, individuative development.

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  • adjective Pertaining to individuation.

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Examples

  • The plausibility of this line of defense is often questioned, however, since there is tension between the goal of increasing the sophistication (and thus the individuative powers) of the functional definitions, and the goal of keeping these definitions within the bounds of the a priori, which would be required for the claim that it is inconceivable for there to be creatures with absent or inverted qualia (but see the discussion in Section 4.2).

    Functionalism Levin, Janet 2009

  • In (1960) he uses the expression ˜term that divides its reference™, but in other writings (1969, 1981) he uses the expression ˜individuative word™.

    Sortals Grandy, Richard E. 2007

  • He claims that ˜five foot garden hose™ is an individuative term since no part of it is a five foot garden hose, but ˜garden hose™ is not individuative.

    Sortals Grandy, Richard E. 2007

  • The account could be extended and adapted without overwhelming difficulty to predicates of genera, wherever these were still determinate enough to be autonomously individuative.

    Sortals Grandy, Richard E. 2007

  • But this is because ˜animal™ so easily takes on an individuative force from a context and/or some other sortal predicate that is ready to hand.

    Sortals Grandy, Richard E. 2007

  • (1967, 32) ¦ I shall call xs ultimate sortal concept ¦ the sortal concept which is individuative of x and restricts no other sortal concept.

    Sortals Grandy, Richard E. 2007

  • The eighteenth century having been an age of individuative, the nineteenth necessarily became an age of associative or coinonomic development.

    The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton

  • ˜object with mass more than 2 kgs™ is not an individuative term since the sum of any two such objects is another such object, whereas ˜object with mass less than 2 kgs™ fails the test since the sum of two such objects sometimes has mass over 2 kg.

    Sortals Grandy, Richard E. 2007

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