 One way in which agency operators have been fruitfully employed is in the study of what are called normative  positions.[69]  A set of normative positions is intended to describe the set of mutually exclusive and jointly exhaustive positions that a person or set of persons may be in regarding a proposition and with respect to a logic governing a set of selected primitive normative statuses and/or agency operators. Recall the partition regarding how Jane Doe may be positioned agentially with respect to \(p\): she may either bring about \(p\), bring about its negation, or be passive with respect to \(p\). Now also recall our partition with respect obligation from  Section 1: