Practice question · Sort into groups
Sort each sentence by whether it is a NORM, a NORMATIVE PROPOSITION, or neither.
Groups: A norm · A normative proposition · Neither
- Retro feels bad
- Most stop
- No ex post pun.
- In ES: stop
- Stop on red
- Art 9.3: no retro.
Hints
- A normative proposition reports that a norm exists somewhere.
- Anything reporting what people do or feel is in the third column.
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A norm: Stop on red, No ex post pun.
A normative proposition: In ES: stop, Art 9.3: no retro.
Neither: Most stop, Retro feels bad
Why
The middle column is what textbooks are made of. The legislator issues norms; the scholar writes propositions about them, which can be true or false and can be got wrong. The third column is neither, it reports behaviour or attitudes, and belongs to the sociology of law rather than to dogmatics.
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