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Definition of normative:

  • (adjective) relating to or dealing with norms; "normative discipline"; "normative samples"
  • (adjective) pertaining to giving directives or rules

Sentence Examples:

Together with its logical, esthetic, and ethical values, the Universe has for man an economic value also, which, when thus made universal and normative, is the religious value.

Whatever is said about their art is a theoretical judgment which connects facts of the ideally complete system of theoretical science; in their case the facts of course belong in first line to the realm of the psychological, historical, and normative sciences.

Logic presupposes the impulse to discover truth, and it therefore sets forth the criteria of true thinking, and endeavors to describe those normative operations whose aim is validity of judgment.

We therefore see no more in this figure the normative and universally valid type of all human life, but merely an incomparable individuality which cannot be directly imitated.

Such faculties are powers in a hierarchy of means and ends and presuppose a normative or critical function which has classified reality.

They all begin in the effort to describe what ought to be; and incidentally give some more or less fallacious or fantastic account of what is, merely in order to support the normative doctrines.

And what could a (normative) grammar be, but precisely a technique of linguistic expression, that is to say of a theoretic fact?

Our communities have grown blindly, and, escaping the natural limitations which curbed even the Roman engineers, have not been controlled, on the other hand, by any normative ideal.

And what could a (normative) grammar be, but just a technique of linguistic expression, that is to say, of a theoretic fact?

That is why there exist no normative sciences in general, which regulate or command, discover and indicate values to the practical activity; because there is none for any other activity, assuming every science already realized, and that activity developed, which it afterwards takes as its object.