(Of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects.
Proceeding to a conclusion by reason or argument rather than intuition.
1 Contesting that meaning through discursive struggle constitutes a challenge to that power.
2 Its approach to variation techniques is discursive , and the result seemed overlong.
3 But there are many discursive remarks in it worth gathering and considering.
4 The reflective attitude as opposed to the discursive was new to him.
5 He wasted no second of time, nor did he permit discursive interruption.
6 His reasons were numerous and ingenious, and, as usual, a little discursive .
7 No discursive process intervenes; one simply knows the phenomenon as it is experienced.
8 But the walks of Marie may, in general, be supposed discursive .
9 Therefore there was no discursive or collative knowledge in the soul of Christ.
10 Stein offers directors words, while freeing them from the rigours of discursive meaning.
11 Objection 1: It seems that the knowledge of God is discursive .
12 Objection 1: It would seem that the knowledge of an angel is discursive .
13 Therefore it seems that there was no collative or discursive knowledge in Christ.
14 The passive reason is the faculty which rises through discursive thinking to knowledge.
15 Tell not me of your discursive faculty: The word of God is plain.
16 He grew less discursive when they fell in with his suggestion.
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