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Descriptivism may
refer to:
Descriptivist theory of
names in philosophy, a view of the
nature of
meaning and
reference generally attributed to Gottlob...
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Synagogue in Omaha, Nebraska,
stands next to a table. etc ... A
version of
descriptivism was
formulated by
Frege in
reaction to
problems with his
original theory...
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American school is
alternatively called distributionalism, 'American
descriptivism', or the 'Bloomfieldian'
school – or 'post-Bloomfieldian', following...
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Necessity in 1970, the
descriptivism advocated by
Gottlob Frege and
Bertrand Russell was the orthodoxy.
Descriptivism suggests that a name is an abbreviation...
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Companion to the
English Language.
Oxford University Press. —
entry for "
Descriptivism and prescriptivism" quotation: "Contrasting
terms in linguistics." (p...
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prescriptivism (ideas
about how
language should be used)
versus descriptivism (the
realities of how
natural language is used). For
writing intended...
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occur has a meaning." This
theory later became the
basis for Russell's
descriptivism with
regard to
proper names, and his view that
proper names are "disguised"...
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without reference, are inconsistent, and that his
apparent endor****t of
descriptivism rests only on a
small number of
imprecise and
perhaps offhand remarks...
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