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discursive

/dih-skur-siv/US // dɪˈskɜr sɪv //UK // (dɪˈskɜːsɪv) //

辨证的,辨析性的,辨析性,辨证法

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : passing aimlessly from one subject to another; digressive; rambling.
    • : proceeding by reasoning or argument rather than intuition.

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Examples

  • “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.

  • The questions linger throughout this at times maddeningly discursive novel.

  • Now Intelligence possesses them by thought, a thought which is not discursive (but intuitive).

  • Yet the impulse to discursive commentary must be checked, for plucking flowers is a distraction from comparative botany.

  • The discursive faculty then becomes what our Shakespeare, with happy precision, calls "discourse of reason."

  • Who is more discursive than the Autocrat, the Czar of table-talkers; and whose productions are more charming or wiser?

  • The evidence of such principles is established by a long and discursive psychological discussion.