Prescriptive is to Descriptive as Normative is to....
iconographic
The differences between what is abstract, ideal, essential, symbolic,
archetypal, and/ or what relates to an image or idol-- as well as what
is iconographic-- is subtle.
What you MIGHT be saying is:
How is the essential nature of a thing restated, within a systems
representation that might include it, such that the abstraction of it
(what is prescriptive) describes a SIMILAR quality to the symbolization
of it (what is descriptive). These two qualities (the abstraction and
the symbolic representation) MAY be referred to as the normative image
and the phenomenal image (meaning "the one which names" it and "the one
which expresses it"); though, this characterization doesn't address a
different essential nature in the two cases.
It may be shown that what is expressed is DIFFERENT from what is named
In such cases: The "icon" (which is descriptive) is distinct from the
"idol" (which is prescriptive): The idol, then, refers to what is
normative. This is in contrast to the icon-- though the icon ALSO
refers to what is normative. What is iconographic, however, further
suggests that the essential nature of the normative abstraction
(and thus that each refers to one of two potentially distinct essential
natures-- for example, the "justification" which is named and the
"truth" which is expressed). To indicate this, one must suggest that
what is named refers to a static system (which is averaged to a point
and so becomes crystallized by the naming of it, and /or which refers,
then, to the [self] justification for it); and that the image which is
expressed refers to a viable system (such that by simply restating the
essential nature of the system one can not indicate the potential
contained within it).
Brett Lane Robertson
Indiana, USA
http://www.window.to/mindrec
MindRecreation Metaphysical Assn.
BIO: http://members.theglobe.com/bretthay
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