normativeexpressing
Normativeexpressing is a term used in philosophy of language and ethics to describe how speakers express normative content—prescriptions, permissions, obligations, and values—rather than descriptive states of affairs. The focus is on what agents ought to do, what is permissible, or what is valued, and on how utterances perform guidance or endorsement rather than report facts.
In normativeexpressing, the primary function of such utterances is to influence action and coordinate norms within
Debates surrounding normativeexpressing address whether normative utterances can be true or false at all, how disagreements