normative principle

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meaningsofnormativeandprinciple

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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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principle
noun
uk
/ˈprɪn.sə.pəl/
us
/ˈprɪn.sə.pəl/
a basic idea or rule that explains or controls how something happens ...
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Chapter 7, on health care, is used to illustrate the limits of anormativeprincipleof equal opportunity.
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In the sociological view, the central guide to policy is not interest or power, but what is the rightnormativeprinciplein a given situation.
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As anormativeprinciple, mutual respect denotes an attitude of accommodation toward individual autonomy as well as cultural autonomy.
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It is anormativeprinciple.
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Turning to the secondnormativeprinciple, that of environmental sustainability, ecosystems are often public goods and the cost of unsustainable use is then excluded from market prices.
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He rejects the idea that private law categories such as contract and tort, and still less unjust enrichment or restitution, are based on a 'singlenormativeprinciple' (pp. 34-5).
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First, the fact of our socialization does not per se provide a basis for treating social norms as normative principles of independent weight.
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It is only when values are operationalised, by becoming instrumental as normative principles, that they have the capacity to influence individual thought and social action.
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Many other normative principles, such as transitivity, independence, and descriptive or procedural invariance, fit this definition, but others do not.
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Rather, normative principles are the sorts of things that create moral obligation.
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Thus, just as stories fill out normative principles, those principles can give new significance even to old stories.
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Policies that begin and change at different times are not likely to reflect the same practical concerns or normative principles.
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This bundling of normative principles strains and sometimes blurs their conceptual separation, leading to some unfounded criticism of equal opportunity.
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This is in contrast to attributing a divergence from norm to reasoning in accordance with principles that diverge from the normative principles of reasoning.
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And such laws and regulations are necessarily based on normative principles that allow certain modes of acquisition, transfer, and distribution and disallow others.
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Axiomatic utility theory plays a foundational role in some accounts of normative principles.
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Deductively derived cutoffs must invoke normative principles beyond the criteria included in the evaluation framework.
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We propose a criterion of strong egalitarian fairness to evaluate the normative principles and institutional practices dealing with accidental injuries and risk creation.
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To be an apt candidate for moral responsibility, the normative principles must include a set of moral principles or norms; the agent must be minimally morally competent.
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For example, the principle might be interpreted as indicating that more reflective, engaged, and intelligent reasoners are more likely to respond in accord with normative principles.
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