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Discursiveness

A property of reasoning, of mediate logical thought, cognition, as distinct from sensory, immediate, and intuitive. The differentiation between the immediate (intuitive) and mediate (based on proof) is made in Plato and Aristotle, and the term Discursiveness occurs in Thomas Aquinas. Marxist philosophy recognises the importance of Discursiveness in cognition, for its analysis of forms and methods, provided chiefly by logic, gains in significance in this age of mathematical, technological, and scientific progress.