Sentence examples for normative assertions from inspiring English sources

Writing in the Verso book, the Yale law professor Samuel Moyn recalls that Arendt suspected that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights could turn into "a set of pleasant normative assertions".

The expressivist contends that we can make sense of the capacity of practical reason to generate states with the peculiar structure and function of intentions only if evaluative and normative assertions are understood along these lines.

His explanation of the difference between non-normative and normative assertions (between, as he put it, 'the assertion that someone was obliged to do something and the assertion that he had an obligation to do it') was merely that the latter sort of assertion is used to display a distinctive sort of attitude.

A more serious problem with the claim that homosexuality is un-African is that it is a feeble normative assertion.

The empiricism and objectivity that were hallmarks of Dewey's ethical theory were antithetical to the Heideggerian or Sartrean interpretation of normative ethical assertions as arbitrary commitments which represent the choices of persons who bear the burden of freedom and self-consciousness.

For discussion of the claim that assertion is normative, see Pagin 2014 [i.e. the SEP article on assertion -- hyperlink here?].

If such rules are essential for the possibility of assertion, then assertion is essentially normative, but it does not follow that meaning is (Glüer & Wikforss 2009a: 37 38, Speaks 2009).

Normative and commitment accounts of assertion do not seem in general to suffer from these problems.

"We make the assertion that what became normative behavior there at the mine is what outsiders would call deviant behavior," Monforton said.

We see the applicability of EOM especially in open domains with a priori unknown and possibly unreliable and insincere actors, where the modeler cannot rely on cooperation or pursue her goals through the exertion of strictly normative power, e.g. the development and assertion of flexible interaction policies for trading platforms in the Internet, as illustrated in a case study.

This understanding of the content of a WTD is not possible from an outside observer position but only through mutual dialogue, in which one takes on a normative commitment or obligation by interpreting the patient's assertions together with her or him.