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What does discursion mean?

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  1. (obsolete, rare) The action of hurriedly moving hither and thither.
  2. (rare, figuratively) Digression.
  3. (rare) Ratiocination.
  4. (philosophy) step by step philosophic reasoning, as opposed to intuition (compare Iamblichus)
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To be perceived as scholarly is to pile on the well-researched minutiae, and to lavish on readers a discursion of prior scholarship despite ample coverage in other articles.
Its primary focus, after its discursion into assisted suicide and euthanasia, is on setting limits on individual autonomy.
I make this discursion because, for a period, the paths of the two composers were parallel.

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