prescriptionistic
prescriptionistic adjective: synonym of prescriptionist.
Adjective
prescriptionistic (comparative more prescriptionistic, superlative most prescriptionistic)
- Synonym of prescriptionist.
- It was felt that many such questions could be profitably discussed—but only if considered in connection with specified segments of the tissue of psychological action, if dissociated from the prescriptionistic tone of much recent analysis, and if approached as problems in the genesis of creative...1959, Psychology: A Study of a Science, page 11
- So far, rational reconstruction is prescriptionistic, but not arbitrarily so. The rational reconstructor will try to show that there is no way of distinguishing between explaining and other forms of human activity (for example, reasserting), unless some of what have ordinarily been called...1967, Edwards, Paul, editor, The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, volume 6
- Synonyms:
- prescriptionist
Examples of prescriptionistic in a sentence
- So far, rational reconstruction is prescriptionistic, but not arbitrarily so.1967, Edwards, Paul, editor, The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, volume 6:
- The third characteristic is a prescriptionistic view of language of and communicative behavior.1991, Limiting Bias in the Assessment of Bilingual Students, →ISBN, page 161:
- Such utterances are not expressions of passion (expressionistic interpretation) only and I give no advice of the utterances (recommendation) (prescriptionistic interpretation).2011, Gerhard Preyer, “Part II: Practical Reasoning”, in Intention and Practical Thought, Humanities Online, →ISBN, 4. Evaluative Attitude...
Synonyms of prescriptionistic
Forms of prescriptionistic
| comparative | more prescriptionistic |
|---|---|
| superlative | most prescriptionistic |
Origin of prescriptionistic
From prescription + -istic or prescriptionist + -ic.
Questions about prescriptionistic
- What does prescriptionistic mean?
- Prescriptionistic means synonym of prescriptionist.
- How do you use prescriptionistic in a sentence?
- So far, rational reconstruction is prescriptionistic, but not arbitrarily so.
- What part of speech is prescriptionistic?
- Prescriptionistic is an adjective.
Words near prescriptionistic in the dictionary
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