Definition of "unificatory" []

• Tending to unify. (adjective)

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• "A set of behavior patterns serves as the explanatory or unificatory features bringing together the appearance of similar features across a very diverse set of phenomena and disciplines"
• "We will need to spell out what counts as an attractive theory but for this we can appeal to the standard desiderata for good scientific theories: empirical success; unificatory power; simplicity; explanatory power; fertility and so on."
• "In the use of all such principles our reflective judgment follows the natural unificatory tendency of the mind and acts, says Kant, “with art.”"