Sentence examples for prescriptive aspect from inspiring English sources

John Hare suggests (2007: 203 n). that this anticipates Hare's much later proposal (on which see § 4 above) that there is a prescriptive aspect to the meaning of "I".

There is further a prescriptive aspect to the meaning of "I": to take a role to be possibly one's own, and to prescribe for that possible situation, is to give weight to the preferences of the occupant of that role as if they were actually one's own.

So the contemporary use of the term Stoic, one who doesn't express suffering in the face of pain, is picking up on the second of these prescriptive aspects.

There're some aspects of it the prescriptive aspects–I don't like.

The issue of disentangling descriptive from prescriptive aspects in an analysis of the technical action and its constituents is therefore a task that has hardly begun.

On this analysis, the function of the evolutionary approach is to provide a descriptive account of knowing mechanisms while leaving the prescriptive aspects of epistemology to more traditional approaches.

In assessing claims about capacity, it is important to distinguish between descriptive and factual aspects of capacity on the one hand, and prescriptive and normative aspects on the other.

The industrial regulations that are embedded in Australian continuity models are prescriptive on aspects of work practices such as length of time worked and protected time off-call, which could further help explain the findings in this study.

Retail is prescriptive with every aspect of the selling experience, whether in stores, online, or even with their packaging.

Given this approach, it took more than a year and a half just to agree on a general methodology to assess the sustainability of national economic policies, and the outcome is overly prescriptive on some aspects and ambiguous on others.

Pharmacists' practices are often perceived as being based on physicians' prescriptive decisions and on technical aspects of dispensing medication [ 38].