"regulative" is a valid word in written English.
It is an adjective meaning "tending to regulate or control". An example sentence would be: "The regulative framework of the company ensured efficient operations."
Roughly, whereas regulative rules regulate a pre-existing activity, such as traffic regulations regulate traffic, constitutive rules in a sense create a new activity.
As Fischer has it, an agent with regulative control can, so to speak, regulate between different alternatives.
The Rawlsian just individual supports the difference principle as the regulative standard for institutions, for the basic structure of society, but does not regulate his own life choices in daily economic affairs and career choices by the difference principle.
The articulation of a regulative ideal became Havel's strong suit, and it was something that took on a charming form in his skilled literary hands.
This principle is, in the terminology of the Critique of Pure Reason, regulative rather than constitutive.
Kant's discussion of the principle of nature's purposiveness for our cognitive faculties, and his related earlier discussion (in the Appendix to the Transcendental Dialectic of the Critique of Pure Reason) of the regulative principle of nature's systematicity, have, together, been seen as very important for the understanding of Kant's views on empirical science.
These dispositions are alleged to be so structurally dissimilar from virtues (as traditionally understood) that it may be psychologically unrealistic to treat (traditional) virtue as a regulative ideal.
Thus, instead of unification being a regulative ideal with biologists seeking as much unity as possible in their explanations of the complex natural world (e.g., Kitcher 1999b), an erotetic perspective suggests that particular problems determine the need for and degree of any integration (Brigandt 2010).
Of course, traditional epistemology also shares the regulative goal of Normative Naturalism; what distinguishes the Normative Naturalist is simply the methods employed to realize this objective (cf. Goldman 1986, pp. 6 9).
In the first, "On the Regulative Use of the Ideas of Pure Reason," Kant attempts to identify some proper "immanent" use for reason.
The distinction between the regulative and the constitutive may be viewed as describing two different ways in which the claims of reason may be interpreted.
