Observative

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from the depth and intensity of her terse poems, numbering 1775 (composed during four decades but except seven, all unpublished, during her lifetime) one feels she was engaged in a sort of poetic sadhana; she is curiously observative of the life around her and is concerned with 'deeper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

"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."

"Nevertheless, even Quine, one of the strongest enemies of the distinction between observation and theory, maintains that it is possible to characterise observative sentences."

"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."

"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."