Sentences with phrase «constitutive theory»

The constitutive theory of statehood defines a state as a person of international law if, and only if, it is recognized as sovereign by other states.

For constitutive theory, recognition is required for statehood.

The U.K. was for many years one of the few states maintaining a formal declared recognition policy in accordance constitutive theories of recognition, but have also moved to the declarative theory since the early 1980's.

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If it is said that an instrumental view of politics still permits other kinds of human interaction to be constitutive of self - interest, the reply is that the considerations just reviewed also apply to a theory or definition of human interaction generally.

At the same time, vision and discernment together — and not vision (or «theory») alone — are constitutive of theological reflection» (72 - 73).

Aristotle provided MacIntyre with an account of why our actions require a conception of an end as well as the social and political conditions necessary to sustain a life formed by the virtues constitutive of that end that is simply lacking in modern moral practice and theory.

According to the Einsteinian formulation of GTR, the physical magnitudes so represented define the metric structure of the space - time continuum, and fields of gravitational force are interpreted as inextricably intertwined with this structure.29 According to the Whiteheadian formulation of 0TH, the physical magnitudes so represented define a physical characteristic, the «impetus,» against the background of a uniform metric structure.30 In effect, Einstein incorporates fields of gravitational force into a theory about the metric structure of the space - time continuum, whereas Whitehead retains such fields as special physical factors constitutive of the physical field associated with an event.

This means that the theory of mental acting as constitutive of a distinct and separate mental or psychical existent is untenable; mental acting must be seen as a factor or ingredient in the total physical existent — which was Whitehead's doctrine in conceiving the mental as one «pole» of an actual entity.11

Declarative theory is more clearer than the constitutive one.