English Dictionary

descriptionist

adj

Descriptivist. / (philosophy) Regarding utterances as primarily descriptive rather than as rigidly specifying a particular thing or kind of thing.

She is a descriptionist linguist who believes that language should be described as it is used by speakers.

意味（1）

Descriptivist.

In effect, they say a plague on both your houses to the two sides in the prescriptionist-descriptionist debate.

意味（2）

(philosophy) Regarding utterances as primarily descriptive rather than as rigidly specifying a particular thing or kind of thing.

The problem with the descriptionist account of date-times is that it gives the wrong truth conditions to sentences like that in CAESAR.