normativistn.adj.

1948 J. Towster Polit. Power in U.S.S.R. 16 The normativists (Kelsen etc.), too, say that every law is state (public) law.

1957 Archivum Linguisticum 9 i. 75 Among the normativists both Gaertner/Passendorfer and Slonski admit of both genders.

1993 Noûs 27 276 At issue is whether explanation in terms of social interests and aims is restricted to an ‘irrational residue’ of content—to beliefs and decisions which normativists have failed to give ‘good reasons’ for.

1953 L. Garvin Mod. Introd. Ethics 379 Even the normativist interpretations of ethics..are naturalistic in so far as they hold that both duty and value have conscious experience as their natural habitat.

1975 Philos. & Public Affairs 5 51 It will, however, be useful to make a minimal division of normativist positions into strong and weak.

1992 M. Loughlin Public Law & Polit. Theory (BNC) 162 It was in the context of this post-war challenge to the authority of the old order..that normativist lawyers swapped complacency for extreme concern.