Descriptionistic

So the first argument results from the reconstructivistic attitude towards legal language and the second one from descriptionistic attitude.

Poincaré’s leadership in the antirealist “descriptionistic” movement is explored in Heilbron (1982).

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.

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.