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Prescriptivity is a term used in meta-ethics to
state that when an
evaluative judgment or
decision is made it must
either prescribe or condemn. The word...
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avoid causing offense (etiquette or
political correctness).
Prescriptive approaches to
language are
often contrasted with the
descriptive approach...
- Look up prescription,
prescriptive, or
prescribe in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In general, the word
prescriptive refers to
refer to
normative judgments...
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moral beliefs. In this
context normative ethics is
sometimes called prescriptive (as
opposed to descriptive) ethics. However, on
certain versions of the...
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permissive by many who felt
dictionaries ought to
approach language prescriptively. The
earliest known descriptive linguistic work took
place in a Sanskrit...
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differs from the
cognitive and
behavioral sciences in that it is
mainly prescriptive and
concerned with
identifying optimal decisions for a
rational agent...
- A
statute of limitations,
known in
civil law
systems as a
prescriptive period, is a law p****ed by a
legislative body to set the
maximum time
after an event...
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Prescriptive analytics is a form of
business analytics which suggests decision options for how to take
advantage of a ****ure
opportunity or
mitigate a...
- The
Hawaiian Kingdom, also
known as the
Kingdom of Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian: Ke
Aupuni Hawaiʻi [kɛ ɐwˈpuni həˈvɐjʔi]), was an
archipelagic country from 1795 to...
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examined via the
empirical method.
Statements of
value (normative or
prescriptive statements),
which encomp****
ethics and aesthetics, and are
studied via...
