Norms as functions
Maribel Narváez Mora · Revus · 2024
This article introduces a model of norms as functions. Drawing on the notions of direction of fit and maximal solution, a concept of normative function is elaborated. Norms thus understood would distribute correctness and incorrectness over classes of actions and their complements. The model is normative and therefore follows some principles of normative rationality. Three features of the norm-as-function model are presented: the non-need to deal with conditionals to represent norms, the non-existence of formal negations of norms, and the difference between the notions of blockade and antinomy. In the language of norms-as-functions, it is possible to speak of logical consequences without logical relations between functions.