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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...
- 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...
- Companion to the English Language. Oxford University Press. — entry for "Descriptivism and prescriptivism" quotation: "Contrasting terms in linguistics." (p...
- and Necessity in 1970, the descriptivism advocated by Gottlob Frege and Bertrand Russell was the orthodoxy. Descriptivism suggests that a name is an abbreviation...
- American school is alternatively called distributionalism, 'American descriptivism', or the 'Bloomfieldian' school – or 'post-Bloomfieldian', following...
- of prescriptivism (ideas about how language should be used) versus descriptivism (the realities of how natural language is used). For writing intended...
- widely cited. The former argues for two different types of meaning and descriptivism. In Foundations and "The Thought", Frege argues for Platonism against...
- Autonomy of syntax Compositionality Conservative and innovative language Descriptivism Etymology Iconicity Internationalism Internet linguistics LGBTQ linguistics...
- proper names and that which they name, known as descriptivism and attributed to Bertrand Russell. Descriptivism holds that ordinary proper names (e.g., 'Socrates'...
- without reference, are inconsistent, and that his apparent endor****t of descriptivism rests only on a small number of imprecise and perhaps offhand remarks...