prescriptive
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Consisting in, or acquired by, immemorial or long-continued use and enjoyment; as, a prescriptive right of title; pleading the continuance and authority of long custom.
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prescriptive grammar is concerned with norms of or rules for correct usage
A curriculum is prescriptive, and is based on a more general syllabus which merely specifies what topics must be understood and to what level to achieve a particular grade or standard.
Another of Popper's students Paul Feyerabend ultimately rejected any prescriptive methodology, and argued that the only universal method characterising scientific progress was anything goes.
Aristotle's Poetics, V. Unlike his prescriptive attitude regarding the plot (unity of action), Aristotle here merely remarks on the typical duration of a tragedy's action, and does not suggest any kind of imperative that it always ought to be so.
A theory can be normative (or prescriptive), citation meaning a postulation about what ought to be.
Cora Kaplan argues that the "negative and prescriptive assault on female sexuality" is a " leitmotif " of the Rights of Woman.