Sentence examples for normative constraints from inspiring English sources

This kind of reasoning provides a kind of conditional reasoning about having violated normative constraints and describing the resulting consequences.

The method is flexible with respect to boundary conditions as concerns the power exchange with the public grid, the tariff structure and the normative constraints.

Japanese strategists struggled for decades to find a way to field a robust military despite legal, political, and normative constraints on the expansion of the Self-Defense Forces (SDF).

In an age of acquisitiveness, and one moreover in which the normative constraints on acquisitiveness have largely fallen away, it is comforting — and perhaps even imperative — to recognize that of all the personal histories that we might choose from, it is our own that would be our likely choice.

It can again seem to involve appeal to an "unconstructed" set of normative constraints.

Therefore, so the complaint goes, these rules are empty as normative constraints.

Bratman defends a reductive account of this normative requirement, explaining this interpersonal normative constraint in terms of the norms of commitment governing individual intention, such as those of consistency and means-end coherence.

Moreover, while under Revlon a board must seek to maximize shareholder value as a normative constraint, in the United States a corporate board can consider other factors such as corporate culture and can legally act to refuse and block a raider offering a higher price to preserve an alternative board-sanctioned deal.

But this normative constraint has, as Davidson puts it, "no echo" in the physical realm.

This is a normative constraint that is not dependent on whether occasion for enforcement ever arises.

We can recast the point about how we ought to judge in austere terms by saying that there is a certain normative constraint on our judgments of taste that is absent in our judgments about the niceness of Canary-wine.