constantive

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Indicating a state of affairs with no additional connotations

   Indicating a state of affairs with no additional connotations; denotational.

   • There are different kinds of speech acts. The two that play the biggest part in the negotiation dance are constantive speech acts and performative speech acts.
   • Austin describes this view of language as mere statement as constantive and argues that language has a function beyond the constantive.
   • When a sentence is heard, we are responsible for deciding if the sentence is performative, constantive, or both.
2. 2

   Composed of elements that are each expressible by a unary polynomial.

   • Thermodynamic properties are additive quantities. Spectroscopic properties are constantive quantities. Wavefunctions, statistical mechanical partition functions, and probabilities are multiplicative quantities.

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