″ Also, spend some time with the dictionary, you meant ‘prescriptive’ not ‘proscriptive.’
No, I did not. On what are you basing your claim to know what I meant to say?”
‘Prescriptive’ is a synonym of normative, and the distinction between descriptive and prescriptive/normative analysis is a standard one. Your use of ‘descriptive’ and ‘proscriptive’ strongly suggests a mistake (and not a dexterity-related typo on a QWERTY keyboard, incidentally).
‘Proscriptive’ derives from ‘proscription,’ i.e. prohibition. ‘Prescriptive’ can be taken to refer specifically to positive injunctions, but in its general form, the form used in descriptive versus prescriptive discussions, encompasses both. Are you going to claim that the correct reading of your earlier comment was that morality is not descriptive, but prohibitory, with no positive prescriptions? That interpretation is so strained that, combined with your past history of pontificating on topics where your actual knowledge is profoundly lacking and general posting behavior, I would attach more credence to a different hypothesis: you made yet another mistake in yet another of your trollish posts, and are now denying it.
Caledonian,
″ Also, spend some time with the dictionary, you meant ‘prescriptive’ not ‘proscriptive.’
No, I did not. On what are you basing your claim to know what I meant to say?”
‘Prescriptive’ is a synonym of normative, and the distinction between descriptive and prescriptive/normative analysis is a standard one. Your use of ‘descriptive’ and ‘proscriptive’ strongly suggests a mistake (and not a dexterity-related typo on a QWERTY keyboard, incidentally).
‘Proscriptive’ derives from ‘proscription,’ i.e. prohibition. ‘Prescriptive’ can be taken to refer specifically to positive injunctions, but in its general form, the form used in descriptive versus prescriptive discussions, encompasses both. Are you going to claim that the correct reading of your earlier comment was that morality is not descriptive, but prohibitory, with no positive prescriptions? That interpretation is so strained that, combined with your past history of pontificating on topics where your actual knowledge is profoundly lacking and general posting behavior, I would attach more credence to a different hypothesis: you made yet another mistake in yet another of your trollish posts, and are now denying it.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/proscriptive http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/prescriptive http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/descriptive