Crossword-Solution: DISCURSION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Discursion | n. | The act of discoursing or reasoning; range, as from thought to thought. |
We have 6 clues for the answer “DISCURSION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Divagation | 5 answers |
| apostrophe | 7 answers |
| Parenthesis | 28 answers |
| excursus | 33 answers |
| Aside. | 55 answers |
| Digression | 59 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
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Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with DISCURSION (5)
The fact that it is written that labour and travel which is described | in the passive form without an object by the sweat of the brows more than of the | implies that eternity has been taken body; that is such travel as is joined | back by God, referring to the Fall of with the working and discursion of the | Man and Paradise Lost.
But in truth Hobbes himself makes no claims to any discovery, and introduces this law of association, or (in his own language) discursion of mind, as an admitted fact, in the solution alone of which, and this by causes purely physiological, he arrogates any originality.
First, because this second mode of discursion presupposes the first mode; for whosoever proceeds from principles to conclusions does not consider both at once; secondly, because to discourse thus is to proceed from the known to the unknown.
Now the term of discursive reasoning is attained when the second is seen in the first, by resolving the effects into their causes; and then the discursion ceases.
For if our intellect were to see at once the truth of the conclusion in the principle, it would never understand by discursion and reasoning.