Sentence examples for normative functions from inspiring English sources

While etiological theories dominate the discussion of normative functions in philosophy of biology, the etiological theory is not uncontroversial.

Drawing from contemporary social theories of gender our analysis explores the normative functions of gender discourse within adolescents' narratives, situating their descriptions of marijuana use within the context of the research interview and within the social contexts of drug use.

This 'forced marriage' within the legally independent PPPs may harm not only the credibility of the normative functions of the regulators, but also the normative functions as such.

The WHO collaboration with business has caused harm to the credibility of the WHO's normative functions [ 7, 40- 43].

The legally independent global PPPs are structured so that public bodies with normative functions hold seats in the policy-making bodies together with business representatives both at global and national levels.

In these constructions of the Platform, any anxiety that the lack of a local in-country GAVI or Global Fund presence would automatically lead to WB paradigms dominating the implementation of the Platform were countered by a division of influence: WHO would retain its technical and normative functions; WB its sustainable financing policy and budget frameworks.

Epistemology has a second justificatory, or normative, function.

The normative function of doctrinal formulation is a typically vain effort to fix and conserve an interpretation of the original dogmas of a given tradition.

If, therefore, the presentation of the other Christian traditions in this article compares them with Roman Catholicism, this comparison has a descriptive rather than a normative function; for, to a considerable degree, Protestantism and Eastern Orthodoxy have often defined themselves in relation to Roman Catholicism.

Abstract notions could not have a normative function unless they had such independent meanings.

The very idea that "pure visualization" has some normative content is a mistake, he argues: "the normative function of visualization is not of visual but of logical origin".