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  • Clegg's quoting of the account of the Sheffield Forgemasters loan from Mandelson's memoirs (all the better to refute your allegations, my dear!) was swiftly truncated ( "Discursive!"), and Straw was cut off early too, though mistakenly this time.

    Clegg nicks it against the oddities 2010

  • Discursive practices related to female desire that appear in Talmud and Midrash constitute a structure that functions as an equivalent to the “conjugal right” of European legal discourse in terms of the ordering of sexual relations between the genders.

    Sex. 2009

  • Discursive reasoning is not possible without poetic intuition.

    Archive 2009-09-01 Rus Bowden 2009

  • Discursive reasoning is not possible without poetic intuition.

    Great Regulars: I can see from the above poem that rational Rus Bowden 2009

  • Discursive knowledge is the sort of knowing that moves from, e.g., premise to conclusion; non-discursive thought, then, is a unitary grasp or understanding.

    Episteme and Techne Parry, Richard 2007

  • Discursive construction: something is discursively constructed just in case it is (to a significant extent) the way it is because of what is attributed to it or how it is classified.

    Feminist Metaphysics Haslanger, Sally 2007

  • Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of “Sex.”

    Intersections Between Pragmatist and Continental Feminism Sullivan, Shannon 2007

  • Discursive knowledge, through dialectic, is able to speak in a reasoned way about each thing, say what it is and in what way it differs from others, and what it has in common with those with which it exists, and so on.

    Episteme and Techne Parry, Richard 2007

  • Her current research projects include: “Experience as an Interpretative Category of Rabbinic Literature and Ethnography” and “The Wandering Jew: Indigenousness and Instability in Discursive Exchanges, with special reference, but not only, to Jews.”

    Galit Hasan-Rokem. Jewish Women's Archive 2006

  • University of Chicago's Vita Excolatur Latin for "life enriched", for example, combines photographs of half-naked gay couples in the library and an article on "How to be naked and look great doing it" with features on the Freudian analysis of the penis and "Psychoanalyse This: Sexual Overcoding and Discursive Limitation".

    Life of Brian: 2005

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