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adj. Of, relating to, or prescribing a norm or standard: normative grammar.

adj. Of, pertaining to, or using a norm or standard.

adj. relating to or dealing with norms.

adj. giving directives or rules; prescriptive. Opposed to descriptive.

adj. based on or prescribing a norm or standard.

Establishing or setting up a norm, or standard which ought to be conformed to.

In petrography, relating to the norm; making up the norm, as distinguished from ‘normal’ in the sense of regular, usual.

adj. relating to or dealing with norms

adj. pertaining to giving directives or rules

"Epistemic standards have a strong normative dimension -- we use our standards of rationality and reasonableness to guide, evaluate, and criticize reasoning, both our own and that of others -- so here the label ˜normative™ applies in a very full-blooded sense."

normative law    normative mode   

norm    normal   

proscriptive    prescriptive   

prescriptive   

formative    informative    performative    uninformative   

evaluative    sociological    probabilistic    societal    methodological