Prescriptivism
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Prescriptivism may refer to:
  • Linguistic prescription
    Linguistic prescription
    In linguistics, prescription denotes normative practices on such aspects of language use as spelling, grammar, pronunciation, and syntax. It includes judgments on what usages are socially proper and politically correct...

    , the prescribing of rules for language
  • Universal prescriptivism
    Universal prescriptivism
    Universal prescriptivism is the meta-ethical view which claims that, rather than expressing propositions, ethical sentences function similarly to imperatives which are universalizable — whoever makes a moral judgment is committed to the same judgment in any situation where the same relevant facts...

    , a meta-ethical theory of the meaning of moral statements
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