Fromdescription +-istic ordescriptionist +-ic.
descriptionistic (comparativemoredescriptionistic,superlativemostdescriptionistic)(rare)
- Synonym ofdescriptionist
1986,Studies in the Theory and Philosophy of Law, volumes1–2, page111:So the first argument results from the reconstructivistic attitude towards legal language and the second one fromdescriptionistic attitude.
1999, Mara Beller, “Chapter 8: The Polyphony of the Copenhagen Interpretation and the Rhetoric of Antirealism”, inQuantum Dialogue: The Making of a Revolution,the University of Chicago Press,→ISBN, The Appeal of Antirealism: Some General Considerations, page176:Poincaré’s leadership in the antirealist “descriptionistic” movement is explored in Heilbron (1982).
2013, “Chapter 1: Introduction”, in Małgorzata Kiełtyka, transl.,Juristic Concept of the Validity of Statutory Law: A Critique of Contemporary Legal Nonpositivism,Springer, translation of original by Andrzej Grabowski,→ISBN, page 3:I must admit that I use—in a methodologically unencumbered way—methods developed in the mainstream of thedescriptionistic analytical philosophy of language and within reconstructionism.
2015, “13: Semantics of poetical tropes: Non-Fregeanity and paraconsistent logic / Basil Lourié and Olga Mitrenina”, inDonum Semanticum: Opera lingvistica et logica in honorem Barbarae Partee a discipvlis amicisqve Rossicis oblata,→ISBN,Descriptionistic approaches, page181:Descriptionistic approaches to poetical tropes go back to Aristotle (Poetics XI, 1457b), who considered metaphor as a kind of analogy assuming that, in the metaphor, the words pointing out a comparison (“as if”, “looks like”, etc.) are omitted, although they are implied.
