Discursion is an act of reflection, and though there is always less there can never be more in reflection than in intuition.
Now the proper operation of a rational soul consists in comparison and discursion from one thing to another.
This reason rests upon discursion and comparison, as used to acquire knowledge.
Further, man needs comparison and discursion of reason in order to find out the unknown.
And hence to use comparison and discursion is connatural to the souls of the blessed, but not to angels.
The capacity for gaining knowledge by the slow process of experience and discursion is all that we have any right to claim for ourselves.
Nevertheless by such discursionreason comes to know what intellect learns without it, namely, the universal.
Experience is affirmed of angels and demons simply by way of similitude, forasmuch as they know sensible things which are present, yet without any discursion withal.
Likewise the second mode of discursioncannot be applied to God.
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.
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.
But intellect and reason differ as to their manner of knowing; because the intellect knows by simple intuition, while reason knows by a process of discursion from one thing to another.
Many ages before him, the theologians had known them; nor could it be otherwise, since the distinction between intuition and discursion is intimately connected with one of the fundamental dogmas of Christianity.
He gave to individual reason, when creating it, an intuition of these relations: no discursion proves them; we see them; this is all.
What necessity is there of abstraction or discursion to ascertain what we will or do not will, what we love or what we abhor?
Besides these intuitions, we have the power of discursion by which we form representations, and by them attain to the cognition of objects not offered immediately to our perception.
And this is verified in the human mind, when it rises bydiscursion to the cognition of the non-sensible.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "discursion" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
