normativity.

The involvement of standards, reasons or requirements concerning what ought to be done, believed or valued.

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Words that belong together

• normativity of a rule
• epistemic normativity

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The rule’s normativity concerned what participants ought to do.

Epistemic normativity addressed justified belief rather than what most people happened to believe.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: explicit explanation, scope and categorization, proof and interpretation, philosophical foundations. Disciplines: academic writing, formal reasoning, philosophy. Commonness: uncommon.