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Prescriptivity — is a term used in meta ethics to state that when an evaluative judgment or decision is made it must either prescribe or condemn. The word infers that these judgments (and resultantly the prescription and condemnation) logically commit us to… … Wikipedia
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R. M. Hare — Infobox Philosopher region = Western Philosophy era = 20th century philosophy color = #B0C4DE image size = 175px name = Richard Mervyn Hare birth = birth date|1919|3|21|df=y death = death date and age|2002|1|29|1919|3|21|df=y school tradition =… … Wikipedia
Moral skepticism — denotes a class of metaethical theories all members of which entail that no one has any moral knowledge. Many moral skeptics also make the stronger, modal, claim that moral knowledge is impossible. Moral skepticism is particularly opposed to… … Wikipedia
Formal ethics — is a formal logical system for describing and evaluating the form as opposed to the content of ethical principles. Formal ethics was introduced by Harry J. Gensler, in part in his 1990 logic textbook Symbolic Logic: Classical and Advanced Systems … Wikipedia
Follett's Modern American Usage — Infobox Book name = Modern American Usage image caption = author = Wilson Follett country = United States language = English series = subject = Style guide200| publisher = Hill Wang, The Noonday Press pub date = 1966 media type = pages = 436 isbn … Wikipedia
prescriptive — adjective Of or pertaining to prescribing or enjoining, especially an action or behavior based on a norm or standard. Syn: normative Ant: descriptive, proscriptive See Also … Wiktionary
prescriptiveness — noun The state or condition of being prescriptive. Syn: prescriptivity … Wiktionary
