observative

observant; watchful

Taking the cue from the depth and intensity of her terse poems, numbering 1775 (composed during four decades but except seven, all unpublished, during her lifetime) one feels she was engaged in a sort of poetic sadhana; she is curiously observative of the life around her and is concerned with 'deeper interests and finer suggestions.'

That street life/compact city perspective is common to all the observative authors, therefore embedding the compact city concept of formal quality both in the selection of relevant formal components and in the definition of criteria for their quantitative measurement.

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.

Some again have pointed it out as an involution of the argument, that they first divide wisdom into observative and active, one of which is identical with the science of morals, which comprises four virtues, of which the aforesead wisdom is one; so that wisdom would here be a division of itself.

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.

An observation.

Taking these observations as a basis for his experiments, Westphalen tried placing patients with habitual constipation on the regular peasant diet, with marked substantiation of the original hypothesis deduced from his general observatives, that the vegetable diet serves as a marked stimulus to intestinal action.

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.

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

Now consider an observative that does not immediately raise the problem of ellipsis: "Willard is on the mat!" Unlike "Lo, a rabbit!," or even just "A rabbit!," this observative utterance takes the form of a proposition that can function as a purely declaratival expression.

Yet, Kukla and Lance notice, the entitlement to an observative is essentially agent-relative and expresses an unsharable perceptual state, for of course no one else can be entitled to such an expression but the one who actually is in that state.