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- noun The quality or state of being
prescriptive .
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Another response would be to argue, following R.M. Hare (1981), that a formal analysis, for example in terms of a kind of prescriptivity, is plausible with respect to some thinner moral concepts, and that this is consistent with significant moral disagreements.
Moral Relativism Gowans, Chris 2008
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Moreover, it is clear that the relevant normativity is that of prescriptivity, concerning what S ought to do. [
The Normativity of Meaning and Content Glüer, Kathrin 2009
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