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prescriptivism

/ prɪˈskrɪptɪˌvɪzəm /

noun

  1. See emotivism, descriptivism
    ethics the theory that moral utterances have no truth value but prescribe attitudes to others and express the conviction of the speaker Compare descriptivism emotivism

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