Nevertheless, a common ("normative") language can establish, as is impressively shown, for example, by the unification of regionally spoken dialects in Germany triggered by the Luther bible.
When I ask Gemel why, he says, "That's just a reaction to cis-het[erosexual] normative language".
In saying that people use normative language to display an attitude to regularities of behaviour, the theorist did not need to do moral philosophy, and did not need to make any moral evaluations of the practice being described.
The theorist did not even need to ascribe any moral evaluations to the participants in the practice, since the fact that people use normative language to display an attitude is, Hart considered, consistent with their having various moral views or none at all.
But as non-cognitivists have attempted to make sense of and explain most of the seemingly realist features of moral practice, it might seem hard to sustain the claim of a sharp contrast between factual language on the one hand and normative language on the other.
However, the normative language around state accountability is situated in an imagined context of state-civil society relations, where the state is imagined as a 'singular and sovereign adjudicator and enforcer of rights' [ 34] and where civil society can and does hold the state to account.
1); a basic difficulty is that it fails to do justice to the normative language used by Kant to describe the demand (for example that anyone who declares something to be beautiful holds that everyone ought to [sollen] give his approval to the object and likewise declare it beautiful [§19, 5: 237]).
A review of Karanicolas, Kunz, and Guyatt's (2008) three-step articulation of EBM's scientific basis demonstrates that the supposed soundness of each principle is not attributable to its scientific status; instead, the normative language of each principle highlights EBM's grounding in an only partially articulated philosophical framework.
