normativity

Reasoning about norms, putting forward a set of norms, or sometimes elevating an axiomatically laid out theory to descriptive by way of treating the axioms as norms, God of the Covenant style.

Also a mode of inquiry in economics, alongside descriptive and prescriptive modes. In the trio of questions we can ask, this one is "what ought to be?" or "what events, were they to transpire, would universally be agreed to be somehow aberrant, and why? what ought to happen in those events?" or "what rules or values benefit everybody to implement?"

One can also attempt an account that tries to examine: "what rules or values are enforced by everyone? what is held to be true in this system by fiat?"

todo A source that defines the normative mode more clearly.

I think it's of concern because its used everywhere and not identified as such everywhere.