Descriptionist

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.

“Oh,” said one of my lunch companions, “you’re a descriptionist rather than a prescriptionist.”

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

The problem with the descriptionist account of date-times is that it gives the wrong truth conditions to sentences like that in CAESAR.