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Grammar : Adj
Spell : nawr-muh-tiv
Phonetic Transcription : ˈnɔr mə tɪv



Définition of normative

Origin :
  • 1880, perhaps from French normatif, from Latin norma "rule" (see normal).
  • adj normalizing
Example sentences :
  • It is in thinking that the normative principles of thought emerge.
  • Extract from : « The Idea of God in Early Religions » by F. B. Jevons
  • The normal is the original, and the original is the normative.
  • Extract from : « Essays in Experimental Logic » by John Dewey
  • So too it is in prayer that the normative principles of prayer emerge; yet men require teaching how to pray.
  • Extract from : « The Idea of God in Early Religions » by F. B. Jevons
  • Thus even in Ethics there is now perceptible in some quarters a tendency to repudiate the normative standpoint.
  • Extract from : « The Group Mind » by William McDougall
  • And, if we go back to the Politics of Aristotle, we find the normative or regulative aim still more prominent.
  • Extract from : « The Group Mind » by William McDougall
  • One editor proposed to amend this by inserting the normative "he" after "Ganymede;" and another by omitting "with" after "afire."
  • Extract from : « Notes & Queries, No. 9, Saturday, December 29, 1849 » by Various
  • The art-bearings of the science are given in the normative character of its subject-matter.
  • Extract from : « International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I » by Various
  • But we must learn how intimately to combine the empirical and psychological with the critical and normative.
  • Extract from : « International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I » by Various
  • Thus is answered the dispute whether logic is empirical or normative, psychological or regulative.
  • Extract from : « Reconstruction in Philosophy » by John Dewey
  • They have both a eulogistic or normative sense, and a descriptive sense; a meaning de jure and a meaning de facto.
  • Extract from : « Democracy and Education » by John Dewey

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