Sentence examples for rather than constitutive from inspiring English sources

But then why is it regulative rather than constitutive?

This principle is, in the terminology of the Critique of Pure Reason, regulative rather than constitutive.

But the dignity passage implies that the preferences of competent judges are evidential, rather than constitutive, of the value of the object of the their preferences.

At least part of Kant's solution consists in the claim that both principles are merely "regulative" rather than "constitutive," that is, that they do not state how nature really is, but only present principles which we must follow in investigating nature.

The fact of the leniency is to my mind a symptom, rather than constitutive, of the main problem.

In these studies we chose to induce acute rather than constitutive changes in neurotransmission.

Models are relatively independent from theory, rather than being constitutive of them; or to use Morrison's (1998) slogan, they are 'autonomous agents'.

Taking desire, choice, and pursuit thus, as evidence for pleasure's value, rather than as constitutive of that, was suggested generally on behalf of the hedonistic tradition in Katz 1986, pp. 104-5.

Some of these proteins may be toxic to the cell, and thus require an inducible, rather than a constitutive expression system.

Our data suggesting that SHR induction is necessary to mitigate DNA damage in GC B cells such as MSI is consistent with these observations and offers a novel interpretation that MSI in these lymphomas was likely acquired during the GC reaction due to compromised SHR induction rather than from constitutive defects in MMR.

Thus, IGF2 DMR0 hypomethylation occurs as an acquired tissue-specific somatic event rather than a constitutive innate epimutation.