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).
These middot remained normative for more than 1,000 years in Judaism.
In a society as religiously diverse as America today, no one faith should be normative for the entire society".
The ISO/TS 7849 normative for the correlation of vibration and acoustic measurement has been employed.
"In America today, it is normative for children to start childcare at some point in the first year of life and stay there until they start school.
The period of the English Renaissance (from c. 1500 to 1660) marks the fixing of syllable-stress metre as normative for English poetry.
Yet this notion of 'earth system management' remains vaguely defined: It is too elusive for natural scientists, and too ambitious or too normative for social scientists.
Ideas about the proper relationships between members of society were naturally questioned when the old feudal order was shaken, and in that period the great teacher Confucius elaborated the social concepts that henceforth became normative for Chinese civilization.
While there must have been a long tradition of grammarians, the final codification of the language is ascribed to Pāṇini (5th or 6th century bc), whose grammar has remained normative for the correct language ever since.
Pope Leo XIII's encyclical Aeterni patris (1879) had made Aquinas normative for Roman Catholic theology, but Congar learned to approach Aquinas not simply as a source of Catholic teaching but as a theologian responsive to his own historical context.
This aesthetic, Duncan contends, provides a powerful novelistic alternative to the Kantian-Coleridgean account of the imagination that has been taken as normative for British Romanticism since the early twentieth century.
