His division of the religions of the world into “ethnic” religions and “catholic” religions was meant to convey his use of a scientific, nonnormative approach.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

˜ought™ from an ˜is,™ that is, any normative truth from any set of nonnormative truths.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Natural Law Tradition in Ethics] Reference

Though the denomination retains its nonnormative teachings about the observance of laws, it is not uncommon to see today’s Reform Jews lighting Shabbat candles at home or keeping kashrut.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Grace] Reference

In recent years these hazards have somewhat diminished (though not disappeared), largely owing to the influence of analytic or linguistic philoso - phers, whose high standards of rigor both in definition and in argument, and whose concern to keep clear the distinction between normative and nonnormative dis - course, have led many aestheticians to adopt one or the other sense, either by stipulation or by an appeal to what they take to be ordinary (i.e., established nonphilosophical) usage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference