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descriptivism|dɪˈskrɪptɪvɪz(ə)m|
[f. descriptive a. + -ism.]
1. Philos. The doctrine that value-words, and hence value-judgements, are equivalent in meaning to certain descriptive expressions; see also quot. 1961. (Cf. descriptive a. 3 a.)
1961Webster, Descriptivism, a theory of ethics according to which only descriptive or empirical statements are meaningful. 1963R. M. Hare Freedom & Reason ii. 17 The thesis..that moral judgements are a kind of descriptive judgements..is descriptivism.
2. Linguistics. The practice or advocacy of descriptive linguistics; the belief that the descriptive part of linguistics is fundamental. (Cf. descriptive a. 3 b.)
1961in Webster. 1964R. A. Hall Introd. Ling. lxxv. 442 A strict descriptivism has on occasion been preached. 1966N. Chomsky Cartesian Linguistics 106 One of the most striking features of American descriptivism in the 1940s was its insistence on justification in terms of precisely specified procedures of analysis. |