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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 Skorupsky.
That's a descriptive statement.
But what is normativity?
That's an interesting philosophical question.
John Skorupsky, 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.