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Discursive vs Inferential - What's the difference?

discursive | inferential |

As adjectives the difference between discursive and inferential

is that discursive is (of speech or writing) tending to digress from the main point; rambling while inferential is of, pertaining to, or derived using inference.

discursive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (of speech or writing) Tending to digress from the main point; rambling.
  • *
  • This means, at times, long and perhaps overly discursive discussions of other taxa.
  • (philosophy) Using reason and argument rather than intuition.
  • Derived terms

    * counterdiscursive

    See also

    * discourse ----

    inferential

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of, pertaining to, or derived using inference