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prescriptivism::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Type of | doctrine, ism, philosophical system, philosophy, school of thought |
prescriptivism::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | philosophy, philosophical system, school of thought, ism, doctrine |
Examples of prescriptivism
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Examples of this view emotivism, prescriptivism, quasi-realism, and expressivism.
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Hare is best known for his development of prescriptivism as a meta-ethical theory.
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Prescriptivism can fit the theist idea of morality as obedience towards god.
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In this way universal prescriptivism can lead to preference utilitarianism.
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A close cousin of emotivism, developed by R. M. Hare, is called universal prescriptivism.
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It is ironic that a defense of archaic prescriptivism would end with an appeal to pluralism.
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Prescriptivism isn't an alternative to descriptivism, because prescriptivism isn't a methodology.
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Government bureaucracy tends toward prescriptivism as a means of enforcing functional continuity.
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Prescriptivism is also supported by the actual way of speaking.
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- (ethics) a doctrine holding that moral statements prescribe appropriate attitudes and behavior
- (linguistics) a doctrine supporting or promoting prescriptive linguistics
- Universal prescriptivism (often simply called prescriptivism) is the meta-ethical view which claims that: # Ethical sentences do not express propositions. ...
- (prescriptivist) Someone who lays down rules regarding language usage, or who believes that traditional norms of language usage should be upheld; Having a tendency to prescribe
- (PRESCRIPTIVIST) A grammatical treatise or a lexicon is said to be prescriptivist if it has the goal of fashioning guidelines or "rules" for grammar, spelling, and word use, as opposed to describing unjudgmentally how a group of people tend to use language. Contrast with descriptivist.
- An ethical theory which contains that moral statements are not simply describing an opinion but have and intrinsic sense that others ought to agree and follow that moral view. Contrasts with descriptive ethics and to some extent emotivism.
- R. M. Hare's contention that the use of moral language conveys an implicit commitment to act accordingly. Thus, for example, saying that "Murder is wrong" not only entails acceptance of a universalizable obligation not to kill, but also leads to avoidance of the act of killing. ...
- Ruling on how language should used. This is common in language instruction but is generally irrelevant to linguistics. (Cf. descriptivism)
- A non-cognitivist ethics; see Prescriptive function of language
