| 释义 |
discursively, adv.|dɪˈskɜːsɪvlɪ|
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a discursive manner.
1. By passing from premisses to conclusions; by ‘discourse of reason’ (cf. discourse n. 2): opp. to intuitively.
1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man. i. i. 22 Whereby we do discursively, and by way of ratiocination, deduce one thing from another. 1816Coleridge Biog. Lit., etc. (1882) 360 In each article of faith embraced on conviction, the mind determines, first, intuitively on its logical possibility; secondly, discursively on its analogy to doctrines already believed. 1828De Quincey Rhetoric Wks. XI. 42 All reasoning is carried on discursively; that is, discurrendo,—by running about to the right and the left, laying the separate notices together, and thence mediately deriving some third apprehension.
2. In a rambling manner, digressively.
1829I. Taylor Enthus. viii. 183 An intelligent Christian..who should peruse discursively the ecclesiastical writers. 1846Poe Halluk Wks. 1864 III. 61 [He] has read a great deal, although very discursively. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. VI. lv. 437 He [George III] spoke discursively of his shattered health, his agitation of mind. |