Sentence examples for normative objectives from inspiring English sources

Whereas innovation is likely to involve breaking rules to achieve normative objectives (e.g., stealing to become rich), rebellion involves challenging the rules or objectives themselves (e.g., protests or campaigns to change laws).

The search for farm systems that meet such multiple goals requires a systematic combination of (a) agrotechnical, agroecological and agroeconomic knowledge, with (b) the stakeholders' joint agreement on normative objectives, to arrive at conceptual new designs followed by (c) empirical work to test, adapt and refine these under real commercial farming conditions.

The normative objectives prevalent in existing definitions [ 1, 13, 16] are surely all reasonable and desirable.

Some definitions of 'global health' encapsulate the pursuit of normative objectives, claiming validity for those engaged in the field.

Allegations claiming that a field, which is inherently 'politicised', becomes 'politicised' by attaching normative objectives can be regarded as annulled.

Further attention has been paid to problems that follow from normative objectives a priori attached to definitions of 'global health'.

If the heterogeneity of preferences in a population increases with its size, degressively proportional thresholds satisfy the normative objective of 'neutrality' between individuals from different states.

Whereas empirical disciplines aim to be purely descriptive, however, EE has a strong normative objective: empirical research in EE is not an end in itself, but a required step towards a normative conclusion or statement with regard to empirical analysis, leading to a combination of empirical research with ethical analysis and argument.

Again, the intention is to push the burden back on the moral anti-realist to articulate a reasoned distinction between the objective moral facts, which are deemed problematic, and the other kinds of objective normative facts, which supposedly are not.

Those attracted to the Humean approach should bear in mind, however, that instrumental rationality is itself the expression of an objective normative commitment.

However, the Quine-inspired naturalized epistemology of most feminist empiricists views knowers as socially situated, empirical evidence as theory-laden and critically revisable in light of theoretical and normative reflection, and objective knowledge of human phenomena as requiring inclusion of feminist inquirers as equals in the collective project of inquiry (Longino 1993a, 1993b).