Descriptive deference to whatever linguists study conflates the sociology of a discipline with its normativeepistemology, committing a naturalistic fallacy about scientific methodology.
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epistemology(Contrasted with purely descriptive scientific inquiry)
A normative enterprise that tells us how we ought to reason from evidence and how we ought to justify our beliefs, as distinct from merely describing how we do reason or justify beliefs
naturalistic fallacy(G. E. Moore's term, introduced in 1903, applied to any attempt to reduce moral properties to naturalistically specifiable properties.)
The error of supposing that a moral property is identical to some natural property, however that natural property might be specified.