The most important of such shared premises is the idea that the primary cognitive attitude of logic is descriptive rather than prescriptive, that is, that logic describes objects or objectivities (Sachverhalte).
Hansson develops systems of deontic logic where he analyzes prohibitive and prescriptive deontic notions in terms of abstract properties of various preference orderings (e.g., a normative status is prohibitive whenever anything worse than something that has that status also has it).
In later years Popper came under philosophical criticism for his prescriptive approach to science and his emphasis on the logic of falsification.
These distinctions allow Frege to distinguish between two versions of 'psychological logicians': one group takes the laws of logic to be descriptive psychological laws, the other group interprets the laws of logic as prescriptive laws based on descriptive psychological laws.
The difficulty with these prescriptive publications is that they unintentionally mislead the practitioner into believing that the task of creating a logic model is as simple as completing a one-page table.
Those shows are prescriptive.
They're not prescriptive.
They're too prescriptive.
This story isn't prescriptive.
