discursive
IPA: dɪskˈɝsɪv
adjective
- (of speech or writing) Tending to digress from the main point; rambling.
- (philosophy) Using reason and argument rather than intuition.
Advertisement
Examples of "discursive" in Sentences
- This interview was more in depth and discursive.
- The current text feels to discursive, for my tastes.
- It provides the framework for Jerome's discursive narrative.
- Indeed, the reviewers even recommended being more discursive.
- I call the first a pointer note and the second a discursive note.
- Discursive remarks tend to come after the substantive 'headlines'.
- Just started the page and ran out of time to add discursive section.
- It emphasizes the socially constructed and discursive nature of race.
- Its interest to modern readers lies in the discursive padding of the story.
- This means, interlocutors act upon and enact discursive frames of reference.
- There's no room for that kind of discursive, descriptive run-on on the Web, where
- Drawing on Ian Hacking's work, Haslanger has referred to this as "discursive" construction:
- So it seems the adjective the NYT should have used was not "discursive" but "prevaricative".
- I mildly call the discussion "discursive," though it would be fair in one or two instances to dub the piece frankly a medley.
- Michaelmas, and the New Year, and there hold a kind of discursive symposium on such themes as then and there present themselves.
- Secondly, knowledge may be called discursive or collative in use; as at times those who know, reason from cause to effect, not in order to learn anew, but wishing to use the knowledge they have.
- He had this kind of discursive education, but no discipline; and when he went to college, he was at the mercy of any who courted his affection, intoxicated his imagination, and then led him into vice.
- It was hence possible to con - ceive a comprehensive doctrinal learning such that, by its means, man reasons and discusses in the three arts called discursive (sermocinales), but at the same time endeavors to learn about things through the other four arts called real (reales).
- "It could be on any subject they chose, and the only requirement was that the essay had to be discursive, that is to say, they had to formulate a thesis, develop an argument, defend it, and draw a conclusion," he writes in "Crisis on Campus," a manifesto for overhauling higher education.
- On the contrary, Jacobi had been forced to use the term, and to oppose it to reason, only because the philosophers had pre-empted the latter term, and had unduly restricted it to mean the kind of discursive conceptualization that abstracts from real things and is ultimately irrelevant to judgments of existence.
Related Links
synonyms for discursiveAdvertisement
Advertisement