Mediaeval Latin, in its progress as a living or quasi-living language, departed from the classical norms far more in syntax and composition than in word-forms.
And the Classics merited such regard; for where they did not instruct in science, they imparted knowledge of life, and norms and instances of conduct, from which men still may draw guidance.
This art is illiterate in the sense that it refuses previous norms and values, comments upon them from within, and projects a very individual language, with many ad hoc rules, and a vocabulary in continuous change.
In the dynamics of the civilization of illiteracy, forces kept under the control of rules and norms established in the practical experience of literacy are unleashed.
Living in a time of change, this is her chance to beat the system and all the literate norms and constraints it imposes on her.
Where literate normsand regulations still in place prevent this emancipation-as is the case with government activity and bureaucracies, the military, and legal institutions-the price is expressed in lower efficiency and painful stagnation.
As such, emancipation results from different pragmatic needs and possibilities, and reflects the weaker grip of literate norms and expectations.
And because we find that the fabric of space lends itself accommodatingly to our conventional norms of measurement is not sufficient reason for identifying it with these norms.
It seems that we shall have necessarily, on account of the recognized limitations of mathematics in this matter, to turn to some more tenable source for the norms of our knowledge concerning space.
It is the intuitional faculty; knows without being taught; conceives without reason; interprets according to the norms of the space-mind or the divine mind of the kosmos.
That is, to do so causes a profound fracture of the fundamental norms of logic.
It is by traversing its scope of motility that the mind finds out what the norms of logic are.
The norms of one will not satisfy the conditions of another stage of manifestation.
We have not yet established any specific units or norms by which education may be measured.
It is true that until we have established norms for measuring the results of education, we cannot make accurate statements regarding the relative standing of pupils nor estimate precisely their accomplishments.
If the aesthetic judgment is given autonomy, a sure foundation for aesthetic norms can be established, because then art will be judged with reference to a perfectly definite purpose.
He indicates their significance and suggests approximate norms for those cases for which they are at present available.
Typical charts of age norms in selected tests are given in the Appendix.
After a standardized and tested form of test has been selected, norms of performance are accumulated by applying the test to large numbers of persons of the same general type.
From the point of view of vocational selection we may expect the principle of the graded intelligence scale to become increasingly valuable as more and more norms are established.
The author describes numerous tests of a simple type, and gives age normsfor each.
Reference to norms thus acquired shows, for example, that in the case of discrimination in voluntary control of the pitch of the voice "a record of .
As rapidly as is consistent with accuracy, norms and standards of performance for different ages, school grades, vocational requirements, etc.
In seeking to establish norms or regulative principles, we must, it is evident, make a special study of objects of art which belong to our own level of culture.
We may now glance at the ideal purpose of this scientific analysis and interpretation, namely, the construction of norms or regulative principles corresponding to the severally essential elements of aesthetic value ascertained.
To create social norms that produce a world you want to live in.
And now when ideal norms are apperceivingly active in the field of knowledge and thought, of feeling and will, when they give laws to the psychical mechanism, true culture is attained.
The highest norms were not present with a categorical affirmation of their reality and value.
We thus see that there are presented in such norms two aspects of a very different nature.
But Eucken, as already stated, while granting all this and even insisting upon it, finds that the norms of History do not include the whole that human nature needs.
And every individual who moves in the direction of such norms brings some contribution of value from the present to be added to the norms of the past.
But these are not found in the same place, neither is the same importance attached to them, once the meaning and value of the over-personal norms and the potency of spiritual creativeness have come into union with one another.
Something over-individual issues out of all these relations, and this enters into the still higher over-individual norms which are the heritage of society.
Eucken's main desire is to establish such norms and values beyond the possibility of dispute and beyond the constant changes of Life-systems.
And the norms which furnish guidance to the spiritual life have originated and are utilised in precisely the same manner as those of the daily avocation.
The norms and standards, already referred to, make their appearance and persist in demanding obedience to themselves even at the expense of much within consciousness that points in another direction.
Eucken shows that the individual will obtain his true place in Society and the State only when spiritual ideals have become fixed norms--norms which form the highest synthesis to be conceived of.
Correction of original contracts was reported to be essential because enterprises tended to exaggerate their true requirements as determined by official norms and standards.
Payment to individual members is to be based on centrally established work norms and rates of pay for various categories of operations, similar to the practice in industry and construction.
They also specify norms for the use of all materials, equipment, and labor and set goals for raising productivity.
If work norms are regularly exceeded, sentences are shortened accordingly.
Enterprises that require operating funds in excess of those prescribed by officially determined norms or are unable to repay credits on time must pay progressively higher interest rates.
Production norms under the system have been low because of technological advances and the infrequency of adjustment of norms.
Their wages are based on the norms for the same kind of work done in enterprises throughout the country, and the same work and safety regulations apply.
Under these conditions workers have been able to exceed the basic norms to such an extent that payment for work above the norm has become a large, and in some cases the predominant, portion of the workers' earnings.
Work input is to be measured on the basis of uniform labor norms differentiated according to natural conditions.
We seem, rather, forced to ask ourselves how this broadening of the horizon affects the norms which have heretofore appealed to men as reasonable.
Those who have suggested thenorms discussed above, no one would think of as greatly influenced in their ethical teaching by the doctrine of evolution.
He drew these norms not merely from his own wit or from the authorities of Antiquity, but from the conversation of learned men experienced in civilized life.
His physical measurements correspond closely to the norms for boys of about 11 years.
This divergence from the norms is found both for boys and for girls of the highly intelligent group, but it is much more pronounced for boys.
Norms for height, weight, and scholastic status are taken from B.
C is one of the few of the bright children studied who does not exceed Baldwin's norms in physique.
Also in January, 1927, in the psychological laboratory of Barnard College, C was given by the present Editor an array of tests for which normswere available for Barnard freshmen, from the work of F.
All but one of the 10 cases for which stature is reported exceed the norms in this respect.
The norms for the three tests are shown in the accompanying Figures VII, VIII, and IX.
The norms are shown in Figures XVI, XVII, and XVIII.
The normsfor girls appear in the second horizontal column, the norms for boys in the column at the bottom.
The teacher will find in the author's Examination of School Children a series of group tests with norms which can be used for a further study of individual differences.
The norms for the latter are based on eighth grade and high school pupils.
A series of group tests with directions andnorms follow.
Of the conditions making possible such a crisis the most important was absence in the Church of norms of faith universally acknowledged as binding.
These norms of orthodoxy seem to have been generally established as authoritative somewhat earlier in the West than in the East.
Although it was not difficult to bring about a condemnation of novel and manifestly erroneous doctrine, there was need of fixed norms and definite authorities to which to appeal.
He cannot, if he would, think of it, for he has no mental tools, no norms applicable for entrance into the medley of human motives called consumption.
He seems to be insisting both that the man's experience as his own must be the measure of reality as known and on the other hand that these experiences present norms which offer a choice in conduct.
As a matter of fact what has happened in every case like these is an actual change of standard, a new construction in the growing system of one's norms of value and behavior.
But among such peoples of the lower cultures as have been consistently observed, norms of knowledge and schemes for its systematization are always found.
Beyond this, in their exercise of scientific initiative, as well as in the norms which guide the systematisation of scientific results, the contention will not be made good--at least not for the current phase of scientific knowledge.
When the growth of culture falls into such lines, these two methods and norms of theoretical formulation may presently come to further and fortify one another, and something in the way of science has at least a chance to arise.
The act which is in agreement with those norms is morally good; the act which is in disagreement with them is morally bad.
The conventions of each bet or game establish the norms of cheating.
Sins that differ in species differ also in gravity, those being more serious that depart further from the normsof reason and the law of God.
Morality is the agreement or disagreement, of a human act with the norms that regulate human conduct with reference to man's Last End.
Acting in accord with these norms and the end of life, it may become necessary and licit for man to mutilate his body in order to safeguard health or to save his life.
The species of morality are three: (a) an act is morally good when it is in harmony with the norms of morality mentioned above (e.
An act that neither agrees nor disagrees with the norms of morality, is called morally indifferent.
As steward, man has duties toward his body, its health and welfare, according to the norms of reason and the divine law, so that it may be a means of his attaining life with God.
It has been asserted that legalnorms have still other qualities.
Every legal norm, and of all norms only the legal norm, has the characteristic that the will on which it is based reaches beyond those whose will it is, and yet embraces them too.
Thus, for instance, the legal relation of a loan is a relation of the borrower, who is bound by the legal norms concerning loans, to the lender, for whose sake he is bound.
Consequently the material to be taken into consideration will be the norms of the most diverse systems and families of laws.
When a debtor is insolvent, or a murder has been committed, conformity to the violated legal norms cannot now be enforced after the fact, but their validity is not impaired by this.
The State is the legal relation of all the men who by legal norms are subjected to a supreme territorial authority, to all those for whose sake they are subjected to it.
Consequently the material to be taken into consideration will be only the constitutional norms of the present law of the German empire.
The Norms were just beyond the door, waiting on the porch.
The Norms were with the Bobbies, and together they practiced, and invented stroke variations, eager to show skill in the water sports and to win awards for that line of efficiency.
Grace was more daring than any of the others, and kept the Norms and Miss Mackin busy shouting warnings to her.
Two ukes and two mandolins, besides a real melodious banjo, composed the orchestra, and the Norms sang everything campy and collegiate, until Mackey declared she would simply have to put her Bobbies to bed.
Regret as real and keen as that usually expressed in a nursery at the same order, answered the summons, but the director was inexorable, and the Norms finally left in a path of complimentary protestations.
A camp untented after a downpour of rain is about as forlorn a sight as can be imagined, and it was such a spectacle as this that confronted the Norms on the bleakish early morning.
We are going to have all the Norms down," announced Miss Mackey, who had been up in the devastated region all the afternoon.
There wasn't much room to stir around without getting the beds wet, but as soon as the Norms could control their unseeming joy, Miss Mackin tried to find a few spots.
The Norms are going to start a class in basketry; who wants to join?
And this because law as a science painfully sought justification in deduction from long obsolete norms and in the explanation of texts.
As a result, people of every background have been exposed to the cultures and norms of others about whom their forefathers knew little or nothing, exciting a search for meaning that cannot be evaded.
It needs little insight to appreciate that clinging to primitive norms in the present day would defeat the very purpose of religion’s patient cultivation of moral sense.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "norms" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: climate; ethos; ideology; mores; norm
