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Adjective: discursive  di'skursiv
  1. Proceeding to a conclusion by reason or argument rather than intuition
    - dianoetic
     
  2. (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects
    "a rambling discursive book"
    - digressive, excursive, rambling

See also: discursively, discursiveness, indirect, logical

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