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Discursive vs Ratiocinative - What's the difference?

discursive | ratiocinative |

As adjectives the difference between discursive and ratiocinative

is that discursive is (of speech or writing) tending to digress from the main point; rambling while ratiocinative is pertaining to or characterized by ratiocination, discursive thinking, or inferential knowledge.

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 ----

    ratiocinative

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pertaining to or characterized by ratiocination, discursive thinking, or inferential knowledge.
  • * 1888 , H.P. Blavatsky,The Secret Doctrine, Vol I , Theosophical University Press, page 1:
  • Only those who realise how far Intuition soars above the tardy processes of ratiocinative thought can form the faintest conception
  • * 1957 , Lawrence Durrell, Justine , Faber, page 80: