Sentence examples for required normative from inspiring English sources

Equipped with this normativity constraint the skeptic goes on to argue against all theories that fail to accommodate the required normative dimension of meaning, in particular dispositionalist theories according to which meaning is determined by the speaker's dispositions to apply her terms (ibid: 22 37).

What constitutes fair or foul play depends upon a set of pre-understood principles just as what is esteemed excellent in art requires normative expectancies of appraisal.

Besides the theoretical goal of understanding human thinking, cognitive science can have the practical goal of improving it, which requires normative reflection on what we want thinking to be.

Specific recommendations about future greenhouse gas emissions pathways and/or atmospheric stabilization levels require normative judgements about the acceptable damages to coral reefs and the metrics for characterizing those damages.

Hence, stimulating and conducting such a debate requires normative choices even where they seem to be technical only.

Moreover, differentiation between age-related declines in functioning and those that are disease-related requires normative data (i.e., BASFI in 'normal' general populations as opposed to patient groups).

But sympathy is not yet morality, since morality requires normative judgment: a moral being is "capable of comparing his past and future actions and motives, and of approving and disapproving of them" (p. 135).

There were also significant differences in the overall mean scores between the groups that did and did not require normative treatment for malocclusion when the CS Child-OIDP attributed to malocclusion was used.

To do this, a functional analysis of value norms is required, and normative principles must be the result of the immediate context of valuation.

Accomplishing this goal required a normative ethical theory employed as a critical tool.

While human desires could be perverse, such as malicious desires that would wreak havoc with the lives of other people, Hook's belief was that such perverse desires could not withstand the tests required for normative acceptance.