Prescription
The aim of the prescription is the definition of structural features that have to be recorded as recurring, typical features in the context of scientific observations. The prescription is therefore a scientific method for the development of a thesis which , after the thesis has been formed , has to be confirmed by empirical (general) observation or an experiment .
Related to the prescription is the " normative " description, which tries to define rules that should be valid for an object or a fact. However, the standardization already falls back on empirical knowledge and tries to generalize their essence through a normative statement.
The opposite term is the description .
Examples
The prescription asks questions such as:
- Which objects should be examined?
- Which level of analysis should be used?
Use in moral philosophy
Richard Mervyn Hare believes that moral commitment judgments are characterized by being prescriptive and universalizable. The prescriptivity of a moral obligation judgment is understood to mean that a speaker with a moral obligation judgment implicitly demands or implicitly requests that something specific be done or not done.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Friedrich Dudda: Choosing me, I choose people. In: Fundamentals of Ethics. Peter Schaber and Rafael Hüntelmann (eds.), Ontos Verlag, Frankfurt, 2003, 2nd edition, p. 26.