Practice question · True or false
A normative proposition is itself a norm.
Hints
- One of the two can be true or false.
- A proposition reports; a norm prescribes.
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False
Why
False. "Drivers must stop at a red light" prescribes and is a norm; "in Spain, drivers must stop at a red light" reports that such a norm exists, and is true or false. Almost every sentence in a legal textbook is of the second kind, which is why textbooks can contain mistakes and statutes cannot.
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