Our argument for the retention of national citizenship approaches… is not a normative one, but a factual one.
Why should it be assumed that if we begin by looking at the standpoint of holding responsible, the philosophical controversy will amount to a merely normative one?
In this respect, Descartes is moving from Pappus's descriptive classification to a normative one that separates geometrical curves from non-geometrical curves, and thereby distinguishes problems that have a legitimate geometrical solution from those that do not.
The biological notion of a proper function is a decisively normative one since it specifies what a trait ought to be doing and does not simply describe what it actually does.
Previous work using normative one time decisions suggests that individual low in NFC process gains and losses differently than those high in NFC and are more susceptible to decision biases.
In this article, I propose distinguishing between two levels, one normative and one practical, to explore whether and how sharing and exchange may be integrated.
Defining humanity in terms of "gains and utilities," the modern outlook "could not see the world itself as containing anything that made moral or normative demands on one," and led East and West alike into a "cognitive enslavement".
This dataset provides occupational safety and ergonomics professionals gender specific normative data on one-handed pull strength capacity in different age groups.
Five behavioral beliefs, two normative beliefs, one descriptive norm belief, three efficacy beliefs, and three control beliefs independently and significantly explain MC intention.
The idea seems to be that for any naturalistic reduction one offers of some seemingly normative notion one can, without betraying any conceptual incompetence, admit that something has the property specified by the reductive account but hold that this lacks normativity does not provide any reasons for action (see Dancy 1996: 180 183).
How, in a macho culture that accepts such behavior as normative, does one entrench the values of dignity and privacy that Mr. Zuma himself lauded when he welcomed Ms. Semenya home?
