Sentence examples for without normative from inspiring English sources

More recently, S-naturalism without normative skepticism has been defended by contemporary moral realists and natural law theorists like Brink (1988 , 1989 2001) and Moore (1985, 1992b).

The vignettes – visionary but without normative preferences – enabled creative discussions around supporting current and future artistic and cultural practices, emulating the function of probes in product innovation.

She argues that those without normative, rational capacities share certain "natural" capacities with persons, and these natural capacities are often the content of the moral demands that persons make on each other.

Kingma (2007, 2010) has recently argued that reference classes cannot be established without normative judgements, contra Boorse, who believed them to be objectively discoverable parts of the natural order.

This is not to suggest that any analysis of integration processes can be entirely without normative assumptions but it is to contend that it is possible to explore processes that are taking place without making assumptions on whether a 'right' outcome has emerged.

CS-OIDP attributed to malocclusion was better able than OHIP-14 to discriminate between adolescents with and without normative needs for orthodontic treatment.

Habermas argued that without a normative foundation, Foucaldian critique is unable to answer the question ' Why fight?' Without a positive vision to work towards, it is unable to suggest why we should 'muster any resistance at all' (Habermas, 1994[1987]: 95).

But he veers toward the second when he remarks that those  who "give up on absolute moral facts" will produce a world "without any normative vocabulary".

The argument is significant because it shows that we should not rush to give up on absolute moral facts, mysterious as they can sometimes seem, for the world might seem even more mysterious without any normative vocabulary whatsoever.

One worry is that without foundationalism, normative theories are banal.

If so, the naturalist's inference does not really work without any normative premises.