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English
Etymology
From normative + -ist.
Noun
normativist (plural normativists)
- A proponent of normativism
2007 August 23, Asbjørn Steglich-Petersen, “Against essential normativity of the mental”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 140, number 2, →DOI:So a possible explanation for the normativist would be to claim that when we ascribe normative mental properties, we do this on the basis of the non-mental, and hence non-normative properties, that mental properties are supposed to supervene on.