What I found very useful and interesting in chapter 2 is the descriptive and prescriptive claims. If a claim is descriptive, it says what is. Prescriptive on the other hand means it says what it should be. For example, they should legalize same sex marriages is a prescriptive claim because it says what it should be. But not all judgment claims are prescriptive. I think that descriptive and prescriptive claims are good to know for the future. Putting in a couple of words can make the sentence sound and mean different. An example of a descriptive claim would be something like this; Best Buy store sells a lot of electronic. This is what it is, not what should be because Best Buy already sells electronic items. I was with my BFF and last week marked the 1st year since we have become friends. We were in the car and we passed a tattoo shop. My BFF said, “We should get matching BFF tattoos”. That is another example of a prescriptive claim. I never knew after all these years, that I have been using descriptive and prescriptive claims.
After reading your post it really made me realize how important these types of claims are and how they are used so much on a daily basis. I found your post easy to understand and very helpful in further explaining descriptive and prescriptive claims. Your examples really helped to give a clear idea of the differences between the two. I too never really realized that I have been using these types of claims my whole life. It’s interesting to me to now know what they are called. I notice myself using these types of claims and remembering what they mean.
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