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What does normative mean?

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Adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to a norm or standard.
  2. Conforming to a norm or norms.
  3. Attempting to establish or prescribe a norm.
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Will Baude speaks to the constitutional questions, which I sidestepped in my column in favor of more directly normative ones.
From the dominant, normative, which is to say male perspective, virginity stands for the promise of permanent possession of the unpossessed.
For Wallace, free agency can be understood neither in terms of certain motivational structures, nor in terms of normative judgement.
In time, both prescriptive and normative qualities were ascribed to classical decision theory.
The idea that people decide what is normative in life is opposed to the Word of God, which teaches that God is sovereign as the final lawgiver.
While widely ridiculed, if we put normative considerations aside, she's largely right.

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