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Protensive   Listen
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Protensive  adj.  Drawn out; extended. (R.) "Time is a protensive quantity."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... all our desires; extensive, in regard to their multiplicity; intensive, in regard to their degree; and protensive, in regard to their duration. The practical law based on the motive of happiness I term a pragmatical law (or prudential rule); but that law, assuming such to exist, which has no other motive than the worthiness of being happy, I term a moral or ethical law. ...
— The Critique of Pure Reason • Immanuel Kant



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