discursive

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Discursive but never dull, his hair swept back and his glasses tinted orange, the 79-year-old Miller is ruminative and reflective, kind of like your favorite college professor, the one whose classes you’d never miss.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2024

Discursive observation and experiment are the sources of facts or particular truths.

From A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning by Holyoake, George Jacob

Discursive principles are, accordingly, very different from intuitive principles or axioms.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow

Discursive observation is the art of noticing circumstances evident to the senses.

From A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning by Holyoake, George Jacob

The knowledge, therefore, which is furnished by the Discursive Reason, Plato does not regard as "real Science."

From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)