Sentence examples for normative notions from inspiring English sources

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

CSP, Sehon argues, has a different realm than does physical science; the normative notions that are central to CSP are not reducible to physical facts and laws.

Epistemic value and, by extension, epistemic goals are not the explanatory foundation upon which all other normative notions in epistemology rest.

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.

Biosensory data, and the data-driven categorizations it supports, are increasingly present in daily life, tracking our behavior and bodies in terms of normative notions of productivity, criminality, and physical and emotional wellness.

"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.

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.

In Leipzig, for instance: "The idea was to create areas where everything is accessible and everybody can flow everywhere - to move away from the normative notion of the perimeter block as a fortified space". A political architecture then?

This focus on the fundamental natures and purposes of different sorts of intellectual property protections and the necessary divisions between them suggests that each form of protection relies on some core normative notion which must ground the economic interests claimed.