Associations to the word «Discursive»

Wiktionary

DISCURSIVE, adjective. (of speech or writing) Tending to digress from the main point; rambling.
DISCURSIVE, adjective. (philosophy) Using reason and argument rather than intuition.

Dictionary definition

DISCURSIVE, adjective. Proceeding to a conclusion by reason or argument rather than intuition.
DISCURSIVE, adjective. (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects; "amusingly digressive with satirical thrusts at women's fashions among other things"; "a rambling discursive book"; "his excursive remarks"; "a rambling speech about this and that".

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky