More problematic are studies of the details of how examiners make judgements when Angoffing an exam, with strong suggestions that if normative data are provided then these overly influence the judgements, but if they are absent then the judgements are, in effect, close to being random [ 16, 17].
If so, Hurley's (1998) suggestion that meeting a normative requirement is necessary for unified consciousness, specifically, a requirement that the experienced properties of things in unified consciousness cohere semantically, is in trouble.
Norm: population based normative values.
The simplest suggestion is to have the normative terms contribute a constant non-cognitive attitude where ever they occur.
Finally, the authors of the review discussed above [ 34] found that the aim of feedback was often vague, the exact procedures to be used lacked specificity, and there was a lack of detail about the mechanism by which feedback was expected to lead to improvement, beyond an implicit suggestion of the impact of normative comparisons.
What we need to note is just that the suggestion helps explain the meaning of normative sentences in one embedded context, namely the one in which it is embedded along in an 'is true' construction.
Our main aim in this article is to provide, based on our own experience, a first suggestion of how to develop a strategy for utilizing normative-ethical theories in empirical-ethical research.
A survey of the literature provides a variety of suggestions: relevant supervening properties are characterized as ethical, moral, evaluative, or normative.
If the suggestion is that meaning statements have a prescriptive content it would provide another very direct argument in support of ME normativity, one that does not have to proceed via the controversial claim that the notion of semantic correctness is an essentially normative notion.
If an empirical-ethical research project is, for example, supposed to contribute to a clear-cut normative evaluation, it would be advisable to select an ethical theory which allows for concrete action-guiding suggestions.
