The embarrassment of logic by this reconstructive character of the idea even Aristotle discovered to some extent in the relation of the Platonic perceptions to the eternal ideas.
In the stage of moral evolution in which custom and authority are the controlling principles of conduct, moral judgment in the proper sense of self-conscious, critical, and reconstructive valuation of purposes is wanting.
But this discovery of the reconstructive function of the idea and its assignment to the jurisdiction of psychology did not leave logic where it was before, nor did it lighten its task.
And since we have discovered, in addition, that the idea is so palpably a reconstructive activity, the difficulties have not diminished.
When the attempt is made from the standpoint of the absolute system, the reconstructivepurpose is swallowed up in the representative.
This is the reconstructive process termed thinking: the reconstructive situation, with its parts in tension and in such movement toward each other as tends to a unified experience, is the thought-situation.
When, on the other hand, the need for a basis of distinction between truth and error "here on this bank and shoal of time" is felt, the representative disappears in the reconstructive function.
The difficulties in Wundt's position are thus due to a failure to take account of the reconstructive nature of the judgment.
We should scarcely be satisfied to observe as a mere matter of fact that the idea has a reconstructive function, and also a representative function.
Defn: Reconstructing; tending to reconstruct; as, a reconstructive policy.
Yet how much research and how much acute thinking are wasted because the student has not the means of making his subject alive for others, has not the reconstructive imagination by means of which truth is communicated!
But the Napoleonic prince pushed his reconstructive theories of race to a destructive conclusion when, in freeing Italy, he furnished a formidable partner to the Triple Alliance, that ultimately destroyed France.
England was the bourn from which no immigrant returned; and under the military or reconstructive methods of the Conqueror, every invader was permanently planted upon the soil.
That valuation which Christianity places on man as man must be seriously reckoned with in our reconstructive efforts after the war.
There is an increasingly critical social situation, demanding far-reaching reconstructive change; only the most hopeless crowd-man would presume to deny this fact.
It constitutes the environment within which our reconstructive thinking must, by tedious effort, make certain definite modifications.
And it is with just such an opportunist reconstructive process that England promises now to meet and solve the problems of the threatened social revolution.
The inferiority of Hagee’s Cordial as a reconstructive and a nutrient compared with ordinary cod liver oil is apparent.
For a long time cod liver oil has been recognized as an easily assimilable nutrient and reconstructive and of special value in wasting diseases.
Hagee’s Cordial of the Extract of Cod Liver Oil Compound has neither the nutritive qualities nor the reconstructive efficacy of cod liver oil.
Some of the claims made for Alfatone are: “A reconstructive nutritive tonic indicated in general debility, neurasthenia, convalescence, etc.
If a pitchforkful of timothy hay makes a good fattening ration for a growing steer why should not a teaspoonful of tincture of timothy hay make a “reconstructive tonic and nutrient” dose for a man?
There was no reconstructive movement, no rising and organisation of the better sort of citizens.
One more point I wish to make before taking up the extraordinary reconstructive work which followed the riot.
In a following chapter I shall hope to deal with the reconstructive and progressive minority in the South as it expresses itself especially in the more democratic border states like North Carolina.
What we need is Catholic intellectual leadership to interpret in a way they can understand, the deep ethical truths of Catholic ethics, dogmas, which are a guide to the reconstructive activities of all time.
Therefore we claim that it is for the greatest benefit of the community at large to have Public Opinion enlightened as to the value of the Church as a reconstructive factor.
III Speaking, then, from the standpoint of temporal order, we find reflection, or thought, occupying an intermediate and reconstructive position.
FU] This process could not be initiated till a large body of constructive and reconstructive experience had been gained.
We have seen that the organism is a centre of waste and repair, of nicely balanced destructive and reconstructive processes.
It is clear that these expectations or anticipations belong partly to the presentative or constructive order, and partly to the reconstructive or representative order.
She knew that she was Elizabeth's inferior in point of reconstructive imagination, and the present moment, while the other was recuperating her energies for fresh assaults on the unknown, was Diva's opportunity.
Miss Mapp sat down on the central-heating pipes in her window, and fell into one of her reconstructive musings.
And in any case we have passed to the idea of thought as reflectively reconstructive and directive, and away from the notion of thought as immanently constitutional and organizational.
Voltaire’s unbelief was merely destructive: this was reconstructive and systematic.
When Englishmen come to understand the need of dissociating their national idea from its existing encumbrances of political privilege and social favoritism, they will be confronted by a reconstructive task of peculiar difficulty.
Mr. Roosevelt's reconstructive policy does not go very far in purpose or achievement, but limited as it is, it does tend to give the agitation for reform the benefit of a much more positive significance and a much more dignified task.
The local political machinery becomes, consequently, the natural and useful subject of reconstructive experiments.
Healing crises, representing radical changes in the system, are always accompanied by physical and mental weakness, because every bit of vitality is drawn upon in thesereconstructive processes.
Even the cessation of suppressive treatment and the stimulating influence of mental and metaphysical therapeutics are not sufficient to bring about the reconstructive healing crises.
The plans which are formed, the principles which man projects as guides of reconstructive action, are not dogmas.
To-day, after two hundred years of Cartesian futility about mind and body and the problem of knowledge, the Baconian emphasis on the socially-reconstructive function of thought renews its power and appeal.
And it would make possible a more generous cooperation among the different currents in the stream of reconstructive thought.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reconstructive" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
