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descriptionistic en · ADJ

Etymology

From description + -istic or descriptionist + -ic.

Meanings

1. (rare) Synonym of descriptionist.
   • Descriptionistic approaches to poetical tropes go back to Aristotle (Poetics XI, 1457b), who considered metaphor as a kind of analogy assuming that, in the metaphor, the words pointing out a comparison (“as if”, “looks like”, etc.) are omitted, although they are implied. 2015, “13: Semantics of poetical tropes: Non-Fregeanity and paraconsistent logic / Basil Lourié and Olga Mitrenina”, in Donum Semanticum: Opera lingvistica et logica in honorem Barbarae Partee a discipvlis amicisqve Rossicis oblata, →ISBN, Descriptionistic approaches, page 181:
   • Poincaré’s leadership in the antirealist “descriptionistic” movement is explored in Heilbron (1982). 1999, Mara Beller, “Chapter 8: The Polyphony of the Copenhagen Interpretation and the Rhetoric of Antirealism”, in Quantum Dialogue: The Making of a Revolution, the University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, The Appeal of Antirealism: Some General Considerations, page 176:
   • So the first argument results from the reconstructivistic attitude towards legal language and the second one from descriptionistic attitude. 1986, Studies in the Theory and Philosophy of Law, volumes 1–2, page 111:
   • I must admit that I use—in a methodologically unencumbered way—methods developed in the mainstream of the descriptionistic analytical philosophy of language and within reconstructionism. 2013, “Chapter 1: Introduction”, in Małgorzata Kiełtyka, transl., Juristic Concept of the Validity of Statutory Law: A Critique of Contemporary Legal Nonpositivism, Springer, translation of original by Andrzej Grabowski, →ISBN, page 3:

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descriptionist