Sentence examples for prescriptive statement from inspiring English sources

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.

David Hume famously exposes the fallacy of deriving a prescriptive statement (that one ought to perform some action) from a description of how things stand in relation to each other in nature.

Value statements are therefore to be distinguished from descriptive and prescriptive statements.

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'.

There are dozens of violent prescriptive statements like those above in the Koran.

He makes no effort to universalize his experience and resists all prescriptive statements, focusing instead on his own covenant responsibilities as a Christian.

Interrogating scarcity can therefore provide factual foundations for prescriptive statements about global justice that apply to local situations.

For this purpose, we included a number of prescriptive statements in our case vignettes based on the EUT normative calculations.

However, there remained inter-disciplinary differences of opinion as to how this might be achieved, with panel members from clinical or health service backgrounds favouring more prescriptive statements.

This was given both in terms of general narrative description of treatment for PE and AML and specific prescriptive statements that "treatment is justified when probability of disease (PE or AML) is sufficiently high for given benefits and harms".

Thus Carnap clarified (1963b, §32) that he regarded the distinction between analytic and synthetic statements—just like the distinction between descriptive or factual and prescriptive or evaluative statements—not as descriptive of natural language practices, but as a constructive tool for logico-linguistic analysis and theory construction.