Sentence examples for normative notion from inspiring English sources

Moreover, even if we are using a genuinely normative notion of correctness, it may well be that the norm in question is not unique to assertion, but governs a broader range of actions, perhaps actions in general, as in the case of moral norms.

After all, rationality is plausibly a normative notion and on some accounts (see above) it is the idea of normativity that gives the Open Question Argument its force.

If, therefore, the notion of semantic correctness is an essentially normative notion, we would have a very direct argument in support of ME normativity, based simply on conceptual entailments.

Competence in that sense is a normative notion.

But at other times, Seneca employs a normative notion of voluntariness.

Is correctness an inherently normative notion, or is it just descriptive?

Two bevies, in fact: one that upheld normative notions of thinness as a feminine ideal and one that flouted them.

Dawn Richard Oddball R&B In parallel to the protean aesthetic development of hip-hop, R&B has often seemed like the live-performance engine of black pop, in which the traditional and normative notions of talent and ambition were being served.

January 30 2014 February 1 201414 In the solo "I Shot Denzel," Acosta, who is transgender, questions normative notions of black male identity through a monologue, excerpts of Stravinsky, a desultory mix of ballet and voguing, and affectingly beautiful song.

"Live Dancing Archive" is in part a reminder that Ms. Monson is not just a nature girl, though she reminds the audience of her previous work by lip-syncing to a song by an old East Village confederate in challenging normative notions of gender: "Bird Gerhl" by Antony and the Johnsons.

Normative notions appear to have strong semantic and pragmatic features.