descriptionist
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5ADJ.
opposite
VERB + DESCRIPTIONIST
rank
DESCRIPTIONIST + NOUN
painter, physics
PREP.
in, with
ADV.
often
Definitions
noun
Synonym of descriptivist.
The author of the Waverley novels is another fine example; but he clearly takes his highest rank as a descriptionist—the painter of effects and appearances rather than of facts and of causes.
Although he is a descriptionist, he is often more effective than Roberts or Lampman.
One who subscribes to descriptionism.
adj
Descriptivist.
In effect, they say "a plague on both your houses" to the two sides in the prescriptionist-descriptionist debate.
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.
Of or relating to descriptionism (theory of truth).
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5The author of the Waverley novels is another fine example; but he clearly takes his highest rank as a descriptionist—the painter of effects and appearances rather than of facts and of causes.
WiktionaryAlthough he is a descriptionist, he is often more effective than Roberts or Lampman.
WiktionaryHe was, on the other hand, the very opposite of a descriptionist in his physics, especially later in his career.
WiktionaryIn effect, they say "a plague on both your houses" to the two sides in the prescriptionist-descriptionist debate.
WiktionaryThe problem with the descriptionist account of date-times is that it gives the wrong truth conditions to sentences like that in CAESAR.
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