Sentence examples for constitutive standards from inspiring English sources

Critics object that the very idea of constitutive standards is paradoxical.

Allow for the moment that actions, understood as Korsgaard proposes, involve constitutive standards.

In Korsgaard's view, the question of why an item should conform to the constitutive standards for its type 'answers itself' (Korsgaard 2008, p. 61).

Likewise, there are constitutive standards for actions, in just that way; a would-be action that did not conform to them would also be defective.

The underlying suggestion is that when Kantian constructivism appeals to constitutive standards, to do so is only to leap into realism about rational agency, since such standards invoke values that are not themselves constructed.

Constitutive standards are supposed to be partly descriptive of the very activity that they have to assess; it thus is unclear whether and how they can be violated (Cohen 1996, 177; Lavin 2004; Kolodny 2005; FitzPatrick 2005).

Chairs are to sit on, and so a chair you can't sit on is defective; being something you can sit on is a constitutive standard for chairs.

For any constitutive standard, it's the thing as a whole that's supposed to live up to the standard; so what's distinctive about one standard or another is what the thing does or is, and not that it does it, or is it, as a whole.

So if she can show that deploying reasons satisfying one or another requirement is a constitutive standard for action — and the requirements she is going to argue for are Kantian — that will amount to showing why you should act on reasons that satisfy those Kantian requirements.

Together with fictionalism it illustrates a position which accepts only one of the two negative theses constitutive of standard non-cognitivism.

The cyanase gene was used as the constitutive internal standard [ 74].