Sentence examples for prescriptive arguments from inspiring English sources

Unlike the economic literature on decentralisation that is dominated by normative and prescriptive arguments on how a shift towards decentralisation should take place, this paper makes a case for re-centering of the political in the decentralisation literature.

In much of the existing literature, norms are embedded within prescriptive arguments for institutional arrangements regarding the exercise of authority, means of representation, distribution of resources, and systems of accountability and transparency.

Hume famously argued that any practical argument that concludes with some prescriptive statement, a statement of the kind that one ought to do this or that, would have to contain at least one prescriptive statement in its premises.

And there are meta-level questions about the sources of authority in questions of grammar, the old prescriptive versus descriptive argument.

This is an old argument over prescriptive versus descriptive usage, one that's not going away any time soon.

It doesn't buy the argument that the less prescriptive fundamental standards – which include general provisions for handling complaints, nutrition and "safe care"– will have at least the same effect as the current rules.

If the suggestion is that meaning statements have a prescriptive content it would provide another very direct argument in support of ME normativity, one that does not have to proceed via the controversial claim that the notion of semantic correctness is an essentially normative notion.

The company's generally argument is that the EU law takes a prescriptive approach — which can make certain elements irrelevant for international users outside the bloc.