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prescriptivism
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noun
- ethics the theory that moral utterances have no truth value but prescribe attitudes to others and express the conviction of the speaker Compare descriptivism emotivism
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To students of language, it’s a battle of descriptivism - analyzing and documenting the real-world use of language - versus prescriptivism - the idea that one manner of language use or set of rules is better than another.
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Thevenot said that he has long found the “folk prescriptivism†of competitive Scrabble’s “armchair lexicographers†vexing.
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The Berlin interpretation, with its mix of high-value and low-value characteristics, is the most comprehensive definition, and even that is attacked for its prescriptivism and its archaism.
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