Fromprescription +-istic orprescriptionist +-ic.
prescriptionistic (comparativemoreprescriptionistic,superlativemostprescriptionistic)(rare)
- Synonym ofprescriptionist.
1959,Psychology: A Study of a Science, page11:It was felt that many such questions could be profitably discussed—but only if considered in connection withspecified segments of the tissue of psychological action, if dissociated from theprescriptionistic tone of much recent analysis,and if approached as problems in the genesis of creative knowledge-seeking action, rather than as extrinsically presolved issues in the “logic” of science.
1967,Edwards, Paul, editor,The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, volume 6:So far, rational reconstruction isprescriptionistic, but not arbitrarily so. The rational reconstructor will try to show that there is no way of distinguishing between explaining and other forms of human activity (for example, reasserting), unless some of what have ordinarily been called explanations are excluded as pseudo explanations.
1991,Limiting Bias in the Assessment of Bilingual Students,→ISBN, page161:The third characteristic is aprescriptionistic view of language of and communicative behavior.
2011, Gerhard Preyer, “Part II: Practical Reasoning”, inIntention and Practical Thought, Humanities Online,→ISBN, 4. Evaluative Attitude: (ii) Cognitive and Evaluative Attitudes, page113:Such utterances are not expressions of passion (expressionistic interpretation) only and I give no advice of the utterances (recommendation) (prescriptionistic interpretation).
