Before revision: Criticism In prescriptive linguistics, functional argument, which is defined by Geoffrey Pullum as arguments utilizing prescriptive norms “to avoid ambiguity, misunderstanding, redundancy, etc.” , is a type of logical explanation, which is not acceptable.
After revision: Criticism In the context of a long-lasting descriptivism versus prescriptivism debate, there has been much skepticism of logical and functional arguments, the latter of which are defined as arguments utilizing prescriptive norms “to avoid ambiguity, misunderstanding, redundancy, etc.” , is a type of logical explanation, which is not acceptable.