The poet John Donne admired her intelligence and her conversation: "She knew well how discourse of all things, from predestination to slea-silk".
But for rhetorical effect, physicists anachronistically back-date their domain of discourse to the things of nineteenth century physics.
Ordinary discourse recognizes several different kinds of things as possible objects of definition, and it recognizes several kinds of activity as defining a thing.
In the approach associated to discourse representation theory, meanings are types of things that are used in the process of fitting pieces of information together and contain items that assist in the fitting.
Forms of understanding (or language and discourses made present in the saying of things); Modes of action (or activities made present in the doing of things) and.
The theory of practice architectures attends to the ways practices are formed socially involving characteristic: 1. Forms of understanding (or language and discourses made present in the saying of things); 2.
In speaking, he's come to use the hyperbolic shorthand of online discourse: things aren't big or bad; they are "insane".
These two types of discourse were naturalistic alternatives to the poetic accounts of things.
For him the cognitive procedure is a process of discovery (see Discourse on the Method, Part 6, 6) of what already is out there as the real nature of things created by God by finding out the clear and distinct ideas we can have of them (Discourse, Part 4, 3 and 7).
Still further in the relativist direction would be the positions of the "Discourse on Evening Things Out" and "Autumn Waters" essays in the Zhuangzi, both of which hold that, though the schemes of kind distinctions we employ are grounded in genuine similarities between things, there are a plurality of such schemes, as they may vary with our practices, context, or point of view.
