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Buterin, who gave two talks, has a discursive and often highly theoretical talking style, making it difficult to pull out specific and succinct theses from his speeches.
POLITICIANS SHOW THEIR INCREASING INTEREST IN CRYPTO AT ETHDENVER 2022ANDREW R. CHOWFEBRUARY 24, 2022TIME“Conversational intelligence is the constellation of features and technologies that enable humans and machines to take turns exchanging language and work toward accomplishing a discursive goal,” says Bennett.
BUILDING CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIPS WITH CONVERSATIONAL AIMARTHA LEIBSMARCH 29, 2021MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWNow Intelligence possesses them by thought, a thought which is not discursive (but intuitive).
PLOTINOS: COMPLETE WORKS, V. 3PLOTINOS (PLOTINUS)Yet the impulse to discursive commentary must be checked, for plucking flowers is a distraction from comparative botany.
VIE DE BOHMEORLO WILLIAMSThe discursive faculty then becomes what our Shakespeare, with happy precision, calls "discourse of reason."
AIDS TO REFLECTIONSAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWho is more discursive than the Autocrat, the Czar of table-talkers; and whose productions are more charming or wiser?
THE CONTINENTAL MONTHLY, VOL. 2, NO. 2, AUGUST, 1862VARIOUSThe evidence of such principles is established by a long and discursive psychological discussion.
THE ENGLISH UTILITARIANS, VOLUME I.LESLIE STEPHENHis essays are disjointed—discursive and eloquent in parts, and bare and meagre in others.
MEMOIRS OF ARTHUR HAMILTON, B. A. OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGEARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSONOf course letters enable you to evade some of the difficulties of the novelist's task, to be discursive, allusive and incomplete.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOL. 146., JANUARY 14, 1914VARIOUSAgain, let the required nature be the discursive power of the mind.
NOVUM ORGANUMFRANCIS BACONWORDS RELATED TO DISCURSIVE
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