Sentence examples for quite normative from inspiring English sources

Often, traditionalist scholars were quite normative in their desire to describe how political institutions ought to function, as opposed to the empirical study of how things actually worked in practice.

In all three instances examined here, dignity is used to encompass a variety of quite distinct normative considerations.

The experience reported here contributes an empirical case study to the existing, often quite theoretical or normative, literature on health governance.

Thus, if we accept Quine's general picture of knowledge, it becomes quite difficult to disentangle normative from descriptive issues, or questions about the psychology of human belief revision from questions about the justifiability or rational defensibility of such revisions.

The concept of attitude is quite broad: it includes normative beliefs about how people should behave in given situations and what counts as good/acceptable behavior, but it also comprises personal opinions and preferences.

This is suggested by two subjects for whom we have two sets of test results a few months apart; in each case, interviewing them about what happened identified specific instances of syringe sharing that we quite unusual and contra-normative for them.

They illustrate also how elusive is the precise demarcation of Christendom, even for those observers whose definition of normative Christianity is quite exact.

The main reason is one that Griffin himself recognizes: the "generative capacities" of normative agency are "quite great".

There are some approaches in the spectrum of philosophical-ethical theories which seem to be quite well-fitted to develop clear normative guidance.

And let's not forget that perceived social norms (some of them not normative at all) are also created -- quite intentionally -- by clever, repeated depiction in movies, TV, music and ads.

Norm: population based normative values.