(ethics) a doctrine holding that moral statements have a truth value

(linguistics) a doctrine supporting or promoting descriptive linguistics

A description (at a given point in time) of a language with respect to its phonology and morphology and syntax and semantics without value judgments

In the philosophy of language, the descriptivist theory of proper names is the view that the meaning or semantic content of a proper name is identical to the descriptions associated with it by speakers, while their referents are determined to be the objects that satisfy these descriptions.

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