Sentence examples for substantive normative from inspiring English sources

Substantive normative facts may filter, supplement, or otherwise modify the original norms, as dictated by the interpretative goals in play.

This new development also raises substantive normative questions.

They may defend 'ought' implies 'can', but hold that it is a substantive normative principle, not a conceptual truth.

For example, the metaethical debate might be rationally resolved in favor of the relativist, while the substantive normative debates cannot be resolved.

Substantive normative questions also come into play at this level, particularly the question what kind of society and economy we want (which, of course, includes issues of sustainability and fairness).

However, it may be that we can do justice to these connections without supposing that the notion of truth thus involved backs up the notions of belief and warrant with any substantive normative content of its own.

Similarly, normative competence theories rely on an agent's psychological capacity to discern substantive norms.

Analytical theories frequently invoke concepts that are fundamentally normative, since such theories (following Dworkin) often seek to portray tort's substantive norms and structural features in their "best light".

Soulé proclaimed that a new inter-disciplinary science, conservation biology, based on both substantive and normative ethical foundations, had been recently created to conserve what still remained of Earth's biological heritage (Soulé 1985).

Ordinary discourse about integrity involves two fundamental intuitions: first, that integrity is primarily a formal relation one has to oneself, or between parts or aspects of one's self; and second, that integrity is connected in an important way to acting morally, in other words, there are some substantive or normative constraints on what it is to act with integrity.

We identified high levels of consensus for many normative, substantive and process-related issues.