Sentence examples for instrumental norm from inspiring English sources

Further questions can be raised about the plausibility of the suggestion that the instrumental norm exhausts the requirements of practical reason.

However, an instrumental norm permeates both the former and the current guidance, suggesting that even as a language of consultation is replaced by one of deliberation, the intention remains to secure and legitimise a smooth development pathway.

The normative force of instrumental norms characteristically is contingent upon the agent's having a certain goal, their intending, or desiring, to reach a certain end, while that of non-instrumental norms is not so dependent.

As in the case of the simple argument, it might be argued that the appearance of an ought here derives from added normative premises, such as instrumental norms concerning the ease of communication, or pragmatic norms regulating speech acts.

Indeed, very many facts can play a role in the generation of instrumental norms without thereby being intrinsically normative – for instance, given the laws of nature, facts about the weather, taken together with facts about my desires, have implications for how I should dress (Coates 1986, Bilgrami 1993, Glüer 2001, Wikforss 2001, Hattiangadi 2006, 2009b).

Are they instrumental norms grounded in contingent ends that we set for ourselves?

As noted above, it is clear that an appeal to merely instrumental norms, or means-ends norms, fails to support the idea that meaning is essentially normative.

Nevertheless, it would be hasty to conclude that nothing but instrumental norms can be derived from meaning facts in conjunction with desires.

Although facts about correctness conditions may play a role in the generation of instrumental norms such as "If you wish to communicate with ease you ought to apply 'green' to x if and only if x is green", the ought in question derives from the agent's desires and intentions (given certain empirical facts, regularities, or laws), not from the correctness conditions themselves.

The social cognitive determinants of PA behavior will be assessed by self-administered questionnaires using the Theory of Planned Behavior variables of attitude (affective and instrumental), subjective norm (injunctive and descriptive), perceived behavioral control (self-efficacy and perceived control), intentions, and planning.

Items will measure all components of the model (affective attitude, instrumental attitude, injunctive norm, descriptive norm, perceived control) including behavioural, normative, and control beliefs developed from prior pilot work in families.