Moreover, it is not only the case that being a subject has an opposite, but that the opposition in question carries normative weight so much so that the devalued side of the opposition (the Other) is denied reality in its own terms: what it is to be Other just is to be opposite to the Subject.
The Pythagoreans who posited the table of opposites differed from other early Greek philosophers not only in the normative view of the opposites but also by including strikingly abstract pairs such as straight and crooked and odd and even, in contrast to the more concrete opposites such as hot and cold, which are typical elsewhere in early Greek philosophy.
Norm: population based normative values.
Indeed, it has been suggested that the opposite is true since if belief is normative the appearance of normativity of content can simply be explained by appealing to the normativity of belief (Speaks 2009: 409).
The effect on overeducation gauged by the statistical measure is the opposite to the effect based on the normative measure, but we demonstrate that these results nevertheless allow for a coherent view on the interaction between job polarization and skills mismatch in Europe.
In contrast, the differences in the deviation from the normative mean were in the opposite direction in the siblings: male siblings deviated on the relevant ratings by about half an SD more from the normative means than the female siblings.
For example, a police officer who compels a confession from a suspect or extorts money steps outside the limits of the legitimate authority usually accorded to the police; the officer thereby engages in coercion, which is the opposite of authority where the presence of a normative relationship is involved.
The value system and the costume styles shared by individuals or groups of women at a specific time can strengthen normative aspects of society, or create just the opposite by anti-social meanings.
While he rejects any interpretation of the origin of logical principles that would impugn their normative character of necessity, he also rejects the opposite extreme, what he calls "Logizismus"—the complete divorce of logical thinking from thinking as it actually occurs in minds.
If we deploy the notion of truth, we can express the normative idea by saying if a judgment is true then its opposite is false.
