constitutive

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It’s how Americans think about the texts that are constitutive of them.

From Slate • May 8, 2024

"We shall always support anything that all three constitutive peoples agree upon," Vucic said, referring to Bosnia's Orthodox Serbs, Catholic Croats and Muslim Bosniaks.

From Reuters • Apr. 15, 2023

In their view, logic is a constitutive norm of reasoning—that is, logic constitutes what reasoning is.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

Of course, there are leakages and these are often where the most interesting thinking happens, but this partitioning of the world is constitutive of any university discipline.

From The Guardian • Apr. 27, 2018

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

From The Philosophy of Spinoza by Ratner, Joseph