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en-wikipedia-org-7031		Normative science - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	874	213	44	Normative science Wikipedia In more general philosophical terms, normative science is a form of inquiry, typically involving a community of inquiry and its accumulated body of provisional knowledge, that seeks to discover good ways of achieving recognized aims, ends, goals, objectives, or purposes.[5][6] Many political debates revolve around arguments over which of the many "good ways" shall be selected.[7] For example, when presented as scientific information, words such as ecosystem health, biological integrity, and environmental degradation are typically examples of normative science because they each presuppose a policy preference and are therefore a type of policy advocacy.[4][8] "Science, scientists, and policy advocacy". "Descriptive and normative sciences". "The use of science in environmental policy: a case study of the Regional Forest Agreement process in Western Australia". "Normative science?" Transactions of the Charles S. Scientific theory History and philosophy of science	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7031.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7031.txt