A Normative Theory of Disagreement

The Pragmatics of Normative Disagreement

On their surface, moral and normative sentences appear descriptive. But what kinds of facts could they describe? Many have been drawn to the idea that normative words like ‘ought’ and ‘good’ are used to refer to relational properties, consisting in a relation to something like a standard, rule, desire, or end, which can vary between contexts. On my preferred view, to say that s ought to φ is ro...

Toward A Normative Theory of Normative Marketing Theory

We show how different approaches to developing marketing strategies depend on the type of environment a firm faces, where environments are distinguished in terms of their systems properties rather than their content. Particular emphasis is given to turbulent environments in which outcomes are not a priori predictable and are not traceable to individual firm actions and we show that, in these co...

a comparative pragmatic analysis of the speech act of “disagreement” across english and persian

the speech act of disagreement has been one of the speech acts that has received the least attention in the field of pragmatics. this study investigates the ways power relations, social distance, formality of the context, gender, and language proficiency (for efl learners) influence disagreement and politeness strategies. the participants of the study were 200 male and female native persian s...

A Normative Dynamic Model of Regional Economy

    Dynamic model,   regional economy,   innovation.   This paper presents a normative balance mathematical model of regional economy that contains a lot of unspecified parameters which are not defined directly by the data of economic statistics. A method for estimation of the model parameters by application of parallel computations on multi-processors systems is presented. It is determined the...

A Theory of Normative Reasoning Schemes