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		bluerobotcat 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its riva... Normative approach versus a descriptive/empirical approach.

ithkuil 10 months ago [–]

Thanks. In a first draft I used the words descriptive and prescriptive but then I decided to avoid possibly using the wrong terminology. Would "prescriptive" be a synonym for "normative" in this case or is there an important difference?

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