Sentence examples for normative terms from inspiring English sources

While the former sees terms such as rationality as explanans to explain away such phenomena as norms, the latter argues that normative terms are not so reducible and thus figure in both explanans and explanandum.

To offer an interpretation that is accepted is to make explicit the operative social norms and thus to establish the normative terms of a social relationship.

Even if constructivists could offer a semantics for normative terms and reconcile their view that moral norms are constructed with the truth-aptness of moral statements, some critics would argue that constructivism nevertheless fails to offer a genuine alternative to realism and antirealism.

Discussing gender identity in consequentialist (as opposed to normative) terms offers a way forward from rigid gender norms that are incompatible with their circumstances by validating a shift away from the status quo.

Perhaps we're unique because, unlike animals, we "think of ourselves and our lives in normative terms".

Hell was regarded as promising in academics, but any success in normative terms was counteracted by his deeply rebellious nature.

He could have said, more accurately, "between the physical and the mental," but the word "real" has an implicit political point — it's a normative term that suggests the virtues of authenticity and truth.

Dao remains essentially a concept of guidance, a prescriptive or normative term.

(Boisvert 2008; Schroeder 2009, 2010) Then a normative term used in a set of premises will already express the normative content the term expresses in the conclusion.

For a premise containing no evaluative or normative term cannot entail a conclusion including such a term.

Jackson (2000) argues that non-cognitivism cannot be combined with the claim that belief is subject to constraints of rationality, where 'rational' is understood as a normative term.