Sentence examples for Normative semantics from inspiring English sources

First, it introduces a small fragment which, preserving the normative semantics and the core functionalities, avoids the complexities of the original specification, and captures the main semantic functionalities of RDFS.

Unless the constants of the language have themselves an independently given mathematical meaning, at no point in this process do we reach semantic bedrock: we are just reducing one syntactic object to another, and this does not yield a normative semantics.

This poses a special challenge to normativists who appeal to Rosen's distinction and grant that the basic semantic relation is non-normative: If this relation is non-normative then the question is not whether the concept of semantic correctness could be given a normative construal but whether semantics needs such a construal (Glüer & Wikforss 2015a).

Even if constructivists could offer a semantics for normative terms and reconcile their view that moral norms are constructed with the truth-aptness of moral statements, some critics would argue that constructivism nevertheless fails to offer a genuine alternative to realism and antirealism.

Hybrid theories that put the expressive function of normative language into the semantics (discussed below) also involve work of this sort.

While much work has focused on the semantics of norms, the design of normative systems, and in particular understanding the impact of norms on a system, has received little attention.

Gibbard suggests we can use an extension of possible worlds semantics to capture normative contents consistent with his norm expressivist analysis.

It is a condition of adequacy for the project of extending moral semantics to embedded normative claims that the embedded sentences and the judgements stand in the intuitively correct logical relations to one another.

The papers included are methodologically diverse and the topics covered range from morphology, syntax, and semantics to the influence of (normative) grammars and the perception and prestige of grammatical items.

Semantic interoperability requires unambiguous semantics.

It's all whitewashing if a story rooted in Asian origins or an Asian setting defaults to a white normative reality". YAMATO: It's easy to argue semantics over the term "whitewashing," as Damon did while clumsily defending "The Great Wall" from critics, by insisting that his character was never meant to be anything other than white.