Amplificatory

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Serving to amplify or enlarge; amplificative.

    "[…] the latter expresses something respecting the former which, instead of being a mere analysis of its meaning, indicates an actual increase of our knowledge concerning it, on which account such judgments were termed by Kant amplificatory, as adding something to our former ideas on the question."

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"[…] the latter expresses something respecting the former which, instead of being a mere analysis of its meaning, indicates an actual increase of our knowledge concerning it, on which account such judgments were termed by Kant amplificatory, as adding something to our former ideas on the question."

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