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ostensive
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Word definitions for ostensive in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, from Late Latin ostensivus "showing," from Latin ostensus , past participle of ostendere "to show" (see ostensible ).\n
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ostensive \Os*ten"sive\, a. Showing; exhibiting. Ostensive demonstration (Math.), a direct or positive demonstration, as opposed to the apagogical or indirect method.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. manifestly demonstrative represented or appearing as such; pretended; "His ostensible purpose was charity, his real goal popularity" [syn: ostensible ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 apparently true, but not necessarily; ostensible 2 Clearly demonstrative.
Usage examples of ostensive.
The direct or ostensive proof combines, with regard to every kind of knowledge, a conviction of its truth with an insight into its sources.
Instead, therefore, of examining, for the sake of an ostensive proof, the whole series of grounds that may lead us to the truth of a cognition by means of a perfect insight into its possibility, we have only to prove that one single consequence, resulting from the opposite, is false, in order to show that the opposite itself is false, and therefore the cognition, which we had to prove, true.
The ostensive reason was Mirsky’s lack of dedication to the cause of socialism.