normative claim
collocation in Englishmeaningsofnormativeandclaim
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normative
adjective
uk/ˈnɔː.mə.tɪv/us/ˈnɔːr.mə.t̬ɪv/
relating to rules, or making people obey rules, especially rules ...
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claim
noun[C]
uk/kleɪm/us/kleɪm/
a statement that something is true or is a fact, although other people might not ...
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(Definition ofnormativeandclaimfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofnormative claim
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One way of defending conservatism, then, is to defend thenormativeclaimthat preferences should be satisfied.
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I shall end with brief remarks about hisnormativeclaim.
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Moreover, the theory makes anormativeclaim, a claim about what kinds of things provide justifications.
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But he also says, in the course of making hisnormativeclaim, something that goes the other way.
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The convexity property of the overall normative evaluation flows from the combination of that descriptive assumption and thenormativeclaimthat individual preferences should be satisfied.
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An agent-relativenormativeclaimgives an agent a moral reason to act that is specific to her because of a particular relationship she has to another agent.
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This is anormativeclaim.
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The conservative will recognize the existence of other normative claims, but will mediate those other claims through a status quo bias.
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But what happens when normative claims, and not simply truth claims, are at stake?
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Rather, researchers tend to take normative claims about irrationality at face value or accept these by authority, not by an analysis of the problem.
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The normative claims of the status quo have to be weighed against other normative claims.
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Nor may the other vis-a-vis my own normative claims.
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It does not provide sufficient grounds for making normative claims.
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It would then follow that welfare claims are not substantive normative claims.
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In such a situation, bioethicists might be encouraged to develop particular normative claims for the purpose of furthering the interests of a corporation.
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Despite important differences, these theorists have come together in beginning to resuscitate the descriptive and normative claims at the heart of the politics of compulsion.
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Referring to the believer's psyche will not provide adequate grounds for making normative claims of the sort required (namely, that a proposition expresses revelation's ' essential nature ').
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Intense regard for values that define their chosen occupation begets a form of moral purity and a rigidity in the face of countervailing normative claims.
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He does, famously, appeal to the impartial spectator upon which he grounds his normative claims, but the spectator is limited by the human imagination and is an imperfect ground.
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