Sentence examples for prescriptive content from inspiring English sources

For example, although Gibbard (2012) construes meaning statements as having a prescriptive content he denies that this has any metaphysical implications for the nature of meaning.

In contrast, Stirner maintains that because it has no universal or prescriptive content, human nature cannot ground any claim about how we ought to live.

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.

An independent, general argument against an intentional condition on rule guidance has been provided by Boghossian (2008, 493f): He argues that the relevant intentional state would be a state with general (prescriptive) content, and that acting under particular circumstances on an intentional state with general content always involves some sort of inference.

FOR decades, Estée Lauder's Prescriptives was content to help women find exactly the right colors to put on their faces.

If genes are seen as "carrying a message" in this sense, the message apparently has a prescriptive or imperative content, as opposed to a descriptive or indicative one.

Learning typically involves mechanical practice to memorize subject content and prescriptive, teacher-determined answers that are viewed as the only "standard" answers.

Curriculum writing styles vary considerably; some are intensely content-prescriptive while others focus more on skills.

Neither its substantive content nor its prescriptive force necessarily depends upon the laws, institutions, and enforcement mechanisms of any single nation-state or treaty regime.

Social media and content marketing is not prescriptive.

These difficulties are avoided if, instead, meaning statements are simply construed as having a prescriptive use (while having a descriptive content).