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What does discursive mean?

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Adjective
  1. (of speech or writing) Tending to digress from the main point; rambling.
  2. (philosophy) Using reason and argument rather than intuition.
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Prose is discursive, its energies more diffuse and spread out across space and time.
Place may be an immediate, pre-conceptual experience, and its knowledge then is intuitive rather than discursive.
In intuition, discursive reasoning of data is not singled out as a special phase.
I believe that we can understand ceremony as a cosmogony in both discursive and performative senses.
Even more commonly the function is a discursive and indecisive meander through various fields of learning for its own sake.
Like Socrates, Russell saw philosophy as spoken and conversational, rather than written and discursive.

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