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  2. Normativity - Wikipedia

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    Many researchers in science, law, and philosophy try to restrict the use of the term "normative" to the evaluative sense and refer to the description of behavior and outcomes as positive, descriptive, predictive, or empirical. [1] [2] Normative has specialized meanings in different academic disciplines such as philosophy, social sciences, and ...

  3. Linguistic prescription - Wikipedia

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    Prescriptive approaches to language are often contrasted with the descriptive approach of academic linguistics, which observes and records how language is actually used (while avoiding passing judgment). [6] [7] The basis of linguistic research is text analysis and field study, both of which are descriptive activities. Description may also ...

  4. Prescription - Wikipedia

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    In general, the word prescriptive refers to refer to normative judgments, i.e. judgments about what is good or bad, such as: Prescriptive analytics, third and final phase of business analytics; Linguistic prescriptivism, the laying down of normative language rules; Prescriptive (normative) economics, branch of economics that incorporates value ...

  5. Fact–value distinction - Wikipedia

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    Statements of value (normative or prescriptive statements), which encompass ethics and aesthetics, and are studied via axiology. This barrier between fact and value, as construed in epistemology, implies it is impossible to derive ethical claims from factual arguments, or to defend the former using the latter.

  6. Prescriptive analytics - Wikipedia

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    Prescriptive analytics is the third and final phase of business analytics, which also includes descriptive and predictive analytics. [2] [3] Referred to as the "final frontier of analytic capabilities", [4] prescriptive analytics entails the application of mathematical and computational sciences and suggests decision options for how to take advantage of the results of descriptive and ...

  7. Positive and normative economics - Wikipedia

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    In the philosophy of economics, economics is often divided into positive (or descriptive) and normative (or prescriptive) economics.Positive economics focuses on the description, quantification and explanation of economic phenomena, [1] while normative economics discusses prescriptions for what actions individuals or societies should or should not take.

  8. Norm (philosophy) - Wikipedia

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    More to the point, however, is the putting forward of the notion that just as descriptive statements being considered true are conditioned upon certain self-evident descriptive truths suiting the nature of reality (such as: it is impossible for the same thing to be and not be at the same time and in the same manner), a prescriptive truth can ...

  9. Linguistic description - Wikipedia

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    Linguistic description is often contrasted with linguistic prescription, [8] which is found especially in education and in publishing. [9] [10]As English-linguist Larry Andrews describes it, descriptive grammar is the linguistic approach which studies what a language is like, as opposed to prescriptive, which declares what a language should be like.