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That's a normative statement.

Beethoven was a better musician than Justin Bieber. That's also a normative statement.

What follows is an interview with the philosopher John Scrutski. That's an interesting philosophical

an interesting philosophical question.

John Scurupsky. Welcome to Philosophy Bites.

Thank you.

The topic we're going to talk about today is normativity.

Perhaps you can give us some normative statements to start with.

Yes, certainly. It's a term that's come to be used in philosophy quite recently. If I say murder is wrong,

intuitively we'd say that's a normative statement, not a descriptive statement. You're

making a judgment of value there. You're making a judgment of value there. You're making a

judgment about what there's reason not to do. Another example would be there's

some reason to believe that the earth is warming as a result of human activity.

That's a normative statement because it's about what there's reason to believe.

It's not just about the facts in virtue of which there's reason to believe it. And then if you take an example from

feelings rather than from beliefs or actions, I might say to you, wow you did

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