Meaning of aspective | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Reflecting one or more aspects, usually of a unified whole, as opposed to a heterogenous entity composed of qualitatively different parts.
   not-comparable
2. Pertaining to or supporting grammatical aspect.
   not-comparable
3. Having a fixed symbolic rendition, as opposed to one that represents a particular perspective or point of view.
   not-comparable

Examples

“The aspective relation borne by the symbol to the matter⟳ symbolised is widely different from that which the matter⟳ symbolised bears to the symbol; but, when the symbol is an idea, deliberately employed, it carries with it the consciousness of the twofold relation.”

“We are holistic, and we are highly aspective.”

“While developing a notion of humanity as "aspective yet holistic,” Frank Stagg says this about biblical interpretations of the concept of "self": Many terms are used in Scripture to stress⟳ the aspective nature of man, as seen from various perspectives.”

“The “aspective” naturalist program⟳ has gone from strength to strength, while the “partitive” dualist program⟳, with Sir John Eccles as its sole eminent champion of recent decades, has gone nowhere.”

“Intermediate between aspective and inflectional prefixes are the cessatives, and the repetitive (-yi-).”

“When forming an aspective pair in which both verbs have⟳ the same meaning, prefixes perform⟳ a merely 'aspective' (grammatical) function, often losing their lexical meaning.”

“Our problem is a critical analysis of the commonly accepted opinion that Slavonic languages—like⟳ Polish—being aspective tongues, differ⟳ in this respect⟳ from English, which is commonly supposed to belong⟳ to the non-aspective types of Germanic languages.”

“Accordingly, in order⟳ to characterize sentences aspectively, and thereby to capture⟳ aspective properties of the events designated by these sentences, the following three aspective dimensions or parameters by necessity commend themselves:”

“Historical events can also be depicted in aspective art but the artist has no alternative scheme to show⟳ that this is a non-recurrent event.”

“The transformation of the Greek myths into a tragic representation itself corresponds to the passage from aspective to perspective.”

“The differences between perspective and aspective approaches to a subject result⟳ in significantly different pieces of art. "Depending on where the viewer places himself the sides are foreshortened, the angles are distorted, and the line bedomes finer as distance increases; in painting the colours and the shadows change⟳, while an aspective artist will normally only render local colours without shadows."”

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