Prescription
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In general, the word prescriptive refers to refer to normative judgments, i.e. judgments about what is good or bad, such as:
- Prescriptive analytics, third and final phase of business analytics
- Linguistic prescriptivism, the laying down of normative language rules
- Prescriptive (normative) economics, branch of economics that incorporates value judgments
- Prescriptive ethics, as distinct from meta-ethics and descriptive ethics
Other uses include:
Health care
[edit]- Medical prescription, a plan of care written by a physician or other health care professional
- Prescription drug, a drug available only if prescribed by a medical prescription
- Eyeglass prescription, written by an ophthalmologist or an optometrist for individuals with eye related concerns.
Law
[edit]- Custom (law), a right enjoyed through long use
- Easement by prescription, acquisition of private property rights through uncontested use
- Prescription (sovereignty transfer), acquisition of sovereignty through uncontested use
- Period of prescription, in civil law jurisdictions, the time limit within which a lawsuit must be brought
- Prescribed sum, the maximum fine that may be imposed on summary conviction of certain offences in the United Kingdom
- Prescribed senior official, an individual who will be refused admission into Canada because of war crimes or crimes against humanity
Other uses
[edit]- Prescriptive barony, a "feudal" barony in Scotland
- Prescriptive notation, a type of Chinese musical notation
See also
[edit]- Prescription Act 1832, United Kingdom
- Proscription, word sometimes confused with prescription