descriptionist

English

Etymology

From description +‎ -ist.

Adjective

descriptionist (not comparable)

  1. Descriptivist.
    • 2013, William D. Nordhaus, Economics and Policy Issues in Climate Change‎, page 97:
      In effect, they say "a plague on both your houses" to the two sides in the prescriptionist-descriptionist debate.
  2. (philosophy) Regarding utterances as primarily descriptive rather than as rigidly specifying a particular thing or kind of thing.
    • 2015 January 8, Leo Carton Mollica, “Explanation and nowness: an objection to the A-Theory”, in Philosophical Studies, DOI:10.1007/s11098-014-0430-9:
      The problem with the descriptionist account of date-times is that it gives the wrong truth conditions to sentences like that in CAESAR.
  • descriptionism
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