descriptionist

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   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.
   • He was, on the other hand, the very opposite of a descriptionist in his physics, especially later in his career.
2. 2

   One who subscribes to descriptionism.

3. 3

   Descriptivist.

   • In effect, they say "a plague on both your houses" to the two sides in the prescriptionist-descriptionist debate.
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   1. 4

      Regarding utterances as primarily descriptive rather than as rigidly specifying a…

      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.
   2. 5

      Of or relating to descriptionism (theory of truth).

The neighborhood

• neighbordescriptionism