Sentence examples for discursive procedure from inspiring English sources

D simply names a discursive procedure: "just those norms of action are valid if all persons affected could agree as participants in rational discourse" (Habermas 1996, 107).

He argues that such a principle is at a different level than the moral principle, to the extent that its aim is primarily to establish a discursive procedure of legitimate law making and is a much weaker standard of agreement.

Novelty and predictability both are illustrated in a new genre, the kaustubha (so called after a mythic jewel retrieved from the heavenly ocean), which in its name as well as in its discursive procedures represents true knowledge as something to be recovered through the revaluation of tradition, not its abandonment (Pollock 2000a).

"Reason", the second kind of knowledge (after "random experience"), is the apprehension of the essence of a thing through a discursive, inferential procedure.

The more specific principle of democracy states that "only those laws may claim legitimacy that can meet with the agreement of all citizens in a discursive lawmaking procedure that is itself legally constituted" (Habermas 1996, 110).

This is, by definition, a discursive process.

Rather, there is a discursive process of conjecture and refutation.

Habermas admits that in the case of cultural values we need not expect such agreement, and he even introduces compromise as a possible discursive outcome of democratic procedures.

The prediscursive noting of sameness prepares the way for the unifying concepts of discursive thought and the process of relating provides the basis for synthetic procedures.

Collection rests on these discursive notions of the non-invasive convenience of the procedure, its lack of cost, particularly in comparison to bone marrow extraction or peripheral blood apheresis.

But that sort of connection can only go so far, and may be undermined by Mr. Santorum's penchant for discursive and meandering digressions that bounce from history to legislative procedure to constitutional analyses — even to weather patterns.