Sentence examples for possible norms from inspiring English sources

Some groups' norms might indeed be better than others when it comes to achieving certain goals but "the upshot is a kind of normative pluralism: there are lots of possible norms, and we can rate them as better or worse (relative to our epistemic goals), but there's no reason to think there's a uniquely best one.

People typically follow one of the two possible norms for "appropriate" eating behavior; the norm to eat minimally, and the norm to avoid eating excessively.

His immense notoriety, which had been confirmed in 1905-06 by "Le Bonheur de Vivre," a fractured fantasia that seemed to trash every possible norm of pictorial order and painterly finesse, was regularly exciting near-riots of derision in the public.

We also show that for several classes of locally compact groups, including all nilpotent groups, I(H) has an approximate identity with norm bounded by 2, the best possible norm bound.

Now, close to 11 years after Hurricane Katrina, floods in Baton Rouge, Louisiana are taking lives and uprooting people in an area known to have dealt with devastating struggle--a possible norm for many in the area due to climate change and the rising sea waters.

It is possible that norms for seemingly low-level attributes, such as orientation and curvature, could also emerge at later stages of the visual hierarchy.

The filter is designed to minimize the worst-possible residual norm on condition that there is parametric uncertainty in the measurement model.

Times change, passions change, and I wouldn't write so much about this issue if I didn't think it was possible for marriage norms to shift in a more conservative direction.

Other possible violations of norms of rationality come from the relationship between the content of the delusion and the available evidence.

Given the strategic, adaptive nature of human beings, we can only speculate as to new possible streams of norms, institutions and organizational complexity with subsequent, catastrophic system order shifts and dynamics that might emerge.

In addition, it is possible that cultural norms influence social desirability particularly in face-to-face interviews with a culturally matched interviewer.