Sentence examples for normative rules from inspiring English sources

Perhaps the most famous of these is a hypothesis advanced by the evolutionary psychologists Leda Cosmides and John Tooby, who argue that we have within ourselves what they call a cheater detection module, and that we're enormously sensitive to cases that involve violations of normative rules.

A second proposition is that eco-efficiency and normative rules such as a Factor Four strongly rely upon institutions, i.e. the ability of institutions to evolve over time and the development of those institutions that are most appropriate to enhance technological change.

Normative rules are commonly thought of as expressing an obligation for human agents and as asserting a motivational pull on the agent's will.

In an early study, Suchman (1987) demonstrated how the interpretation of people operating technical objects cannot be guided by normative rules.

Along these lines, it seemed for Dewey that philosophers of logic or science should be concerned not only with normative rules of logical and scientific inquiry but also with the features of the natural environment in which logical and scientific inquiry had taken place.

Non-state actors play havoc with global treaties and normative rules, seeking to do horrifying harm.

And the second difference between the bottom and top is, of course, that this is a normative rule.

Probabilistic reasoning is often attributed a temporal meaning, in which conditioning is regarded as a normative rule to compute future beliefs out of current beliefs and observations.

When we become habituated to a certain pattern of behavior, something that was initially a normative rule for us becomes a descriptive one.

Those writers often described the process of enlarging the competence of the agencies in terms of international organizations progressively acquiring normative, rule-creating, rule-enforcing, and finally programmatic responsibilities.

'Persistent losing' is presented as the normative rule by which these data should be evaluated, which asserts that community members can reject electoral rules which impose on them, more than others, higher participation costs.