Sentence examples for normative utterances from inspiring English sources

Without going into too much detail it should be apparent that a commitment to reducing all inconsistency to A-type inconsistency must require such sentences to express the same non-cognitive attitude as normative utterances.

Daniel Boisvert (2008) argues that a normative utterance like "Stealing is wrong" similarly expresses both a belief that stealing is wrong (which, for Boisvert, is the belief that it has whatever natural property the correct moral theory says it has) and disapproval of stealing.

On these theories, promising is a special sort of power we have over our normative circumstances, the power to invoke obligations by promissory utterance.

Although these good-reasons moralists, such as Henry David Aiken, Kurt Baier, Kai Nielsen, John Rawls, Marcus G. Singer, Paul W. Taylor, Georg Henrik von Wright, and Geoffrey James Warnock, manifest a wide range of theories on normative issues, they generally agree that the primary function of moral utterances is practical i.e., directive of action rather than emotive and expressive.

In its adjudicative aspect any ethical system is a feedback loop: feedback is deemed negative when one's utterances or actions are not considered to be socially normative, or deemed positive when they are.

And in their utterances.

It is normative.

The law is normative.

These are modern utterances.

In fact, that's the normative pattern.

Toward a Normative Understanding of Trump Negation.