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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(philosophy, theology) Reflecting one or more aspects, usually of a unified whole, as opposed to a heterogenous entity composed of qualitatively different parts..
The aspective relation borne by the symbol to the matter symbolised is widely different from that which the matter symbolised bears to the symbol; but, when the symbol is an idea, deliberately employed, it carries with it the consciousness of the twofold relation.
We are holistic, and we are highly aspective.
While developing a notion of humanity as "aspective yet holistic,” Frank Stagg says this about biblical interpretations of the concept of "self": Many terms are used in Scripture to stress the aspective nature of man, as seen from various perspectives.
The “aspective” naturalist program has gone from strength to strength, while the “partitive” dualist program, with Sir John Eccles as its sole eminent champion of recent decades, has gone nowhere.
Intermediate between aspective and inflectional prefixes are the cessatives, and the repetitive (-yi-).
When forming an aspective pair in which both verbs have the same meaning, prefixes perform a merely 'aspective' (grammatical) function, often losing their lexical meaning.
Our problem is a critical analysis of the commonly accepted opinion that Slavonic languages—like Polish—being aspective tongues, differ in this respect from English, which is commonly supposed to belong to the non-aspective types of Germanic languages.
Accordingly, in order to characterize sentences aspectively, and thereby to capture aspective properties of the events designated by these sentences, the following three aspective dimensions or parameters by necessity commend themselves:
Use aspective when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Aspective means (philosophy, theology) Reflecting one or more aspects, usually of a unified whole, as opposed to a heterogenous entity composed of qualitatively different parts..
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The aspective relation borne by the symbol to the matter symbolised is widely different from that which the matter symbolised bears to the symbol; but, when the symbol is an idea, deliberately employed, it carries with it the consciousness of the twofold relation.
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