Sentence examples for prescriptive form from inspiring English sources

Elf on the Shelf presents a unique (and prescriptive) form of play that blurs the distinction between play time and real life.

In the first, prescriptive form, the principle enjoins us to "Find for the conditioned knowledge given through the understanding the unconditioned whereby its unity is brought to completion".

Rawls exemplifies this view but also resists a merely prescriptive form of stability; that is, he does not want a society to be stable based on what should render it stable.

Of these categories, Vincenti claims that they represent prescriptive forms of knowledge rather than descriptive ones.

Commonly held values or views of a specific issue can be regarded as prescriptive, forming the basis of a code of conduct and justifying institutionalized obligations such as directives, laws and other regulations.

And while he rejects old forms and norms — the title "Once Every Day" suggests vitamins, health, prescriptions, prescriptive thinking, genre, canons, codes — he holds onto gestures and words as if to a sacred ritual.

A key aspect of normalizing behavior is the development of a prescriptive schema where forms of knowledge are combined with training, surveillance, monitoring and testing to ensure their adaptation by those within the institution [3].

David Hume generated a popular controversy with his famous passages of "A Treatise of Human Nature" (cf. Hume 2000, Book 3, Part 1, Section 1, paragraph 27) where he noted that sometimes people draw conclusions involving prescriptive statements of the form 'ought to be' on the basis of descriptive statements of the form 'what is'.

This principle was first formulated by Kant in the Introduction to the Transcendental Dialectic in two forms, one prescriptive, and the other in what sounded to be a metaphysical claim.

Despite the fact that a growing number of jurisdictions are giving pharmacists various forms of prescriptive privileges, there are conspicuously few rigorous evaluations of these policy changes.

It was too mechanistic, too prescriptive and he loathed any form of authoritarianism.