Sentence examples for prescriptive statements from inspiring English sources

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'.

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.

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.

On either construal, however, the question arises why we should believe that meaning statements are prescriptive.

One suggestion is that the prescriptive function of meaning statements follows from their role in coordinating our linguistic use (Gauker 2007 and 2012: 279).

A moral statement has prescriptive meaning, but may also be partly descriptive.