observative

Definitions

1. 1

   observant

   observant; watchful

   • As early as 1842, he had referred to what he called his 'observative mood' and the search for a vantage point from which the city could be contemplated as a vast, rushing spectacle.
2. 2

   Pertaining to observation.

   • A Habit may often raise the common conceptive sensations to the same degree of vividness as the observative, and even to a degree still higher.
3. 3

   Pertaining to an observative (utterance about an observation).

   • Nevertheless, even Quine, one of the strongest enemies of the distinction between observation and theory, maintains that it is possible to characterise observative sentences.
   • As the examples in (653) illustrate, this does not only involve utterances that may be understood as answers to questions (cf. (653a)), but also short observative statements as the ones in (653b), that occurred in a picture description.
   • They urge the existence of 'observatives' as specific speech acts that are conceptual, but not necessarily propositional.
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   1. 4

      An observation.

      • The observatives on which the totality of our empirical knowledge rests are themselves the result of the transformation of perceptual habits through initiation into the discursive community.
      • PARISIAN TEENAGE WRITER: "I am writing a book about the Paris Riots and Student Revolution in 1968 and need some personal observatives.”
   2. 5

      An utterance that describes or calls attention to something that the speaker observes.

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