Descriptionistic

Synonyms for "descriptionistic" (3 found)

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

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

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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.

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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.

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