Sentence examples for a normative one from inspiring English sources

Our argument for the retention of national citizenship approaches… is not a normative one, but a factual one.

In this respect, Descartes is moving from Pappus's descriptive classification to a normative one that separates geometrical curves from non-geometrical curves, and thereby distinguishes problems that have a legitimate geometrical solution from those that do not.

The concept of a human being is a normative one, imposing moral demands on those who understand and apply it.

On this approach, the debate is best cast as a normative one about the sorts of principles that bear on when we should or should not treat a person as morally responsible.

The concept of law is thus a normative one; it identifies the value of legality.

From this perspective, the role of specification is a normative one.

The biological notion of a proper function is a decisively normative one since it specifies what a trait ought to be doing and does not simply describe what it actually does.

Why should it be assumed that if we begin by looking at the standpoint of holding responsible, the philosophical controversy will amount to a merely normative one?

In other essays Scheman argues that the philosophical "we"—the subject who has philosophical problems is a normative subject, one that bears the markings of various kinds of privilege.

Previous work using normative one time decisions suggests that individual low in NFC process gains and losses differently than those high in NFC and are more susceptible to decision biases.

Should the AUSFTA precipitate such a normative shift (particularly one away from scientific cost-effectiveness evaluation of pharmaceuticals) the regulatory implications are likely to be profound and resonate beyond Australia to impact on the health care sectors of other nations.