Sentence examples for discursive thinking from inspiring English sources

The contemporary debate about the adequacy of a purely imagistic medium for capturing what is involved in making a judgment and discursive thinking seem to parallel some of Kant's critique of British Empiricism in general and of Hume's associationism in particular, as indeed emphasized by many classicists like Fodor and Pylyshyn (1988), Rey (1997).

In fact, the highest part of the person, one's own intellect, the faculty in virtue of which persons can engage in non-discursive thinking, is eternally 'undescended'undescended

We have a poetics that is given to Puritan austerity and simple declarations of moral facts, and you will see that the poetic mode of Paradise Regained and, in fact, the poetic mode of a lot of later poets – I'm thinking of the discursive poetry of a Romantic poet like Wordsworth – has been heavily influenced by the last two books of Paradise Lost.

This means that the demiurgic intellect engages in creation through a third god, that is a third intellect (frs. 21.3 5, 22.4), which is thinking in a discursive way (dianooumenon; fr. 22.4), not in the purely contemplative way that the demiurgic intellect thinks.

Once you have surrendered to Byrne's discursive style and lateral way of thinking, the book starts to make more sense.

Ratio or discursive reason is our capacity for thinking, using concepts and judgments.

The analysis can never claim to be objective but is influenced by the conscious and unconscious discursive patterns which shape the researcher's thinking.

Ed is a good broadcaster because he is wonderfully himself on air; and with that slightly plummy, mellifluous voice and a thoughtful, occasionally discursive, manner, he can lull some interviewees into thinking his questions are less pointed than they are.

This definition just highlights why thinking about the future needs more discursive scepticism.

There is a certain way of thinking that draws on those disciplines more than it does purely discursive exploration of a great novel.

Yet, while these are fruitful approaches for thinking through the micro-politics and processes of change at an individual, group or discursive level, there remains the overarching question of whether these approaches can enable more structural shifts in the form of hegemonic masculinity or whether they leave this unruffled (Jewkes et al. this issue).