Sentence examples for normative interpretation from inspiring English sources

Still I think a more robust concept of authoritative normative interpretation of texts and tradition may enable us to better acknowledge and pursue what is true, good, and beautiful.

In general, public justification theorists all feel the pull of the normative and the descriptive, though some are more inclined toward a purely normative interpretation (Quong 2011) and others toward a more descriptive interpretation (arguably Rawls 2005).

But this normative interpretation of maximizing rationality is tenable only if it is at least conceivable that individual agents might sometimes fail to satisfy its requirements—an'ought'that it is not so much as possible to flout is not really an 'ought' at all (Lavin 2004).

In this paper we provide a normative interpretation of this bias, supported by an experiment in visual domain.

A normative interpretation of nosology holds that values do not undermine objectivity; they are an essential component of objectivity in creating a guide to mental health and illness.

Where normative interpretation of catastrophic payments are necessary, it is considered appropriate to give more weight to excess payments made by poorer households [ 26].

In this article, the Jequetepeque case study is mobilized to reassess normative interpretations of the role of religious ideology in cultural adaptation and sociopolitical realignment.

"I wish we had a Jewish Harvey Cox," says Hillel Levine, professor of sociology and religion at Boston University and director of the school's Center for Judaic Studies, "someone writing about current developments and applying Jewish normative interpretations, but Cox's Jewish contemporaries are understandably preoccupied with monitoring Jewish survival and the survival of Judaism.

In moral discourses of application, one must test alternative normative interpretations of the particular situation for their acceptability before the limited audience of those immediately involved, on the assumption that one is applying valid general norms.

The representations we had designed in Fuzzy Chronicles scaffolded and refined the teacher and students' intuitive understanding of the relationships but are not sufficient to support a fundamental reinterpretation that the teacher and student could reconcile with normative interpretations of the relationships.

(Høyrup, 2000 : 189) The main source of many of the problems with Habermas's scheme is that he builds his understanding of the single scientific domains on the interpretations of other philosophers (often normative interpretations, stating what ought to be the methods and aim of the sciences), and not giving original investigations.