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Tall-Truth-9321 t1_j5r7g7r wrote

Why, what don’t you like about it? What do these terms mean?

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Tall-Truth-9321 t1_j5y7f21 wrote

Here’s a normative statement: you should have answered the questions.

I guess you can find it objectionable that there are norms. And you don’t believe in norms. Or you could object that there is confusion about the term as Wikipedia puts it:

A norm in this normative sense means a standard for evaluating or making judgments about behavior or outcomes. Normative is sometimes also used, somewhat confusingly, to mean relating to a descriptive standard: doing what is normally done or what most others are expected to do in practice. In this sense a norm is not evaluative, a basis for judging behavior or outcomes; it is simply a fact or observation about behavior or outcomes, without judgment. Many researchers in science, law, and philosophy try to restrict the use of the term normative to the evaluative sense

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