Sentence examples for discursive thought from inspiring English sources

Recognizing an incompatibility between the modalities of nonverbal arts and their treatment by discursive thought, it is hardly surprising that music aestheticians have been few.

Used in a narrower sense, it is distinguished from discursive thought and applies to the apprehension of eternal intelligible substances and first principles.

Because it addresses itself to our sensory appreciation, the work of art is essentially concrete, to be understood by an act of perception rather than by a process of discursive thought.

As a result, his detached observations are rather at odds with the spirit of Buddhist teachings, which regard direct experience rather than discursive thought as the primary basis of understanding.

Ramanuja's chief contribution to philosophy was his insistence that discursive thought is necessary in humanity's search for the ultimate verities, that the phenomenal world is real and provides real knowledge, and that the exigencies of daily life are not detrimental or even contrary to the life of the spirit.

As he wrote, "The Theater of the Absurd strives to express its sense of the senselessness of the human condition and the inadequacy of the rational approach by the open abandonment of rational devices and discursive thought," and it does so through "a poetry that is to emerge from the concrete and objectified images of the stage itself".

The meditative practice studied here involves the generation of a state in which an "unconditional feeling of loving-kindness and compassion pervades the whole mind as a way of being, with no other consideration, or discursive thoughts" (for details see Meditation Instruction).

Discursive knowledge is the sort of knowing that moves from, e.g., premise to conclusion; non-discursive thought, then, is a unitary grasp or understanding.

Discursive, satirical thought is the stuff of the most interesting conversation.

Meditation is " a family of techniques which have in common a conscious attempt to focus attention in a non-analytical way, and an attempt not to dwell on discursive, ruminative thought" [ 90].

A southbound towpath walk along the River Lea Navigation Canal down the west side of the park takes you past Here East and then, further on, on the opposite bank, Hackney Wick's White Building, which is sold as "London's centre for art, technology and sustainability" and "an incubator for discursive and innovative thought", no less.