(August 21, 2009 at 5:17 am)Arcanus Wrote:2nd Law of Thermodynamics is descriptive and can be written "Heat generally cannot flow spontaneously from a material at lower temperature to a material at higher temperature."(August 12, 2009 at 7:28 pm)Tiberius Wrote: [The law of non-contradiction] is descriptive, not prescriptive.
And this also is false. Look at the language used to express the proposition, Adrian: "something cannot be both true and false at the same time and in the same respect." Descriptives are expressed by "is/is not" statements (what is given a posteriori), while prescriptives or normatives are expressed by "can/cannot" statements (what is given a priori).
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