"normative point" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is commonly used in academic or professional writing, particularly in fields such as philosophy, social sciences, and law. It refers to a statement or idea that is based on or concerned with norms or standards of behavior. Example: "The author argues that the end goal of education should not be solely focused on academic achievement, but also on developing critical thinking skills, a normative point often overlooked in traditional curricula."
So it turns out that normativity (contra Kant) always consists of conditional imperatives: if, and only if, one endorses a certain normative point of view, determined by its basic norm, then the norms that follow from it are reason giving, so to speak.
In contrast to the methodology of science, it is strongly process oriented and takes a normative point of view.
Conclusions: Our extension of reinforcement learning models to free operant tasks unites psychologically and computationally inspired ideas about the role of tonic dopamine in striatum, explaining from a normative point of view why higher levels of dopamine might be associated with more vigorous responding.
We are not sure what the normative point of our natural reactions in walking through the nature's maze.
uThe reference to 'productive' is an open-ended normative point, a Kantian regulative idea as it were.
It's no surprise that the classical rather a-prioristic theory fails to be descriptively adequate, and to criticize it on these grounds rather misses its normative point.
Relevant examples on apt translational theory are instead methodological approaches to ethical education and deliberation that are developed with the aim of supporting and shaping political, professional or private practical conclusions while accepting pluralism with respect to the normative points of view of the stakeholders involved.
Whether the patients' relative weight loss observed at 72 months or more was clinically relevant may be questioned because the patients' relative body weight was above the normative level at this time point.
While public health (at the national level) is based on a widely accepted normative starting point – namely, that it is the responsibility of the state to improve people's health – there is no widely accepted normative starting point for international health or global health.
However, if global health researchers with a background in empirical disciplines want to use a normative starting point that departs from the status quo, they will want a normative starting point that is based on rigorous research.
But a normative starting point is essential for any global health policy recommendation, and normative starting points cannot be derived directly from empirical evidence, because of the 'is-ought problem' discussed above.
