Prescriptive things have to do with giving rules or directions. Prescriptive advice tells you what to do.
Consisting in, or acquired by, immemorial or long-continued use and enjoyment;
Adjective
giving directives or rules; "prescriptive grammar is concerned with norms of or rules for correct usage"
Adjective S.
based on or prescribing a norm or standard; "normative grammar"
a.
Consisting in, or acquired by, immemorial or
long-continued use and enjoyment; as, a prescriptive right of title;
pleading the continuance and authority of long custom.
Prescriptive
The right to be drowsy in protracted toil has become prescriptive.
Consisting in, or acquired by, immemorial or long-continued use and enjoyment;
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Science will explain how but not why. It talks about what is, not what ought to be. Science is descriptive, not prescriptive it can tell us about causes but it cannot tell us about purposes. Indeed, science disavows purposes.
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