The second consideration that makes me hesitant to accept the idea that welfare should be seen as a normative concept is purely economical.
Yet important normative questions have remained about the policies a liberal state should adopt toward religion.
I state them in terms of the ideal concept of normative economics that welfare economics is supposed to encapsulate.
Copies of the short forms and the normative tables appear in the appendices.
In time, this repetitive attribution of a particular symbolic value to certain social actions became assumed as normative.
But if coherence leads to not treating people as equals, as we argue, then local coherence loses its normative force.
Finally, the extent of negative consequences of a disorder can vary as a function of normative developmental trajectories.
I believe that the normative responses to reasoning tasks as well as the systematic deviations from them can be explained within a single reasoning system.