Something similar occurs with ostensive definitions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Definitions] Reference

The problem of direct, or ostensive, reduction is this.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deductive Logic] Reference

A dictionary may offer ostensive definitions of some words.    From Wordnik.com.  [Definitions] Reference

By ˜ostensive™ relevance theorists make reference to the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pragmatics] Reference

Hence, we have been forced to adopt an ostensive definition of democracy. ‎.    From Wordnik.com.  [REGIME CHANGE, LANGUAGE CHANGE] Reference

We can teach a boy a term, say ˜meter™, by giving the ostensive definition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Definitions] Reference

They do not lend themselves to, as philosophers say, “ostensive” definition.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Muse in the Machine] Reference

The second difference has to do with the ostensive reason for and purpose of the war.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Real Plan Behind the Iraq War] Reference

Definitions sought by philosophers are of neither of these kinds, dictionary or ostensive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Definitions] Reference

The free traders gave it away for the ostensive reason of access to a billion new customers in China.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stephen Herrington: Trade Is An Issue Americans Understand; Why Doesn't Geithner?] Reference

This ostensive definition has led to the winning of ‎ the ballot box by fair means and foul (mostly foul).    From Wordnik.com.  [REGIME CHANGE, LANGUAGE CHANGE] Reference

Every act of ostensive communication (e.g. an utterance) communicates a presumption of its own optimal relevance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pragmatics] Reference

The Chinese fueled Clinton's apparent economic success, not the ostensive 'sound' economic policies Clinton practiced.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama and Geithner �� The Economic Fix has Failed!!] Reference

His terms determinate, determinable, occurrent, continuant and ostensive definition have entered the philosophical lexicon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Determinates vs. Determinables] Reference

Whatever the problem the same inquiry is necessary whether one wishes to use an ostensive syllogism or a reduction to impossibility.    From Wordnik.com.  [PRIOR ANALYTICS] Reference

The average H. habilis braincase was considerably larger than that of Australopithecus ', and its ostensive shape is more like H. Sapiens.    From Wordnik.com.  [Did Darwinists Jump the Gun?] Reference

As for the potted history of post-revolutionary France, it is, for all its ostensive authority, an attempt to justify the means by the end.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

¦ It is this common and commonplace experience that licenses what amounts to an ostensive definition of the notion of ˜bringing about™.    From Wordnik.com.  [Causation and Manipulability] Reference

Again if it has been proved by an ostensive syllogism that A belongs to no E, assume that A belongs to some E and it will be proved per impossibile to belong to no E.    From Wordnik.com.  [PRIOR ANALYTICS] Reference

For although an ostensive reference fixing will be causal, as Kripke points out (1980, 55), one could use a reference-fixing description in its place; e.g. when one says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Natural Kinds] Reference

To quote Bucanan again: "So long as we insist on examining subjects in terms of an ostensive "what is", we will continue to objectify them - perception, itself, objectifies.".    From Wordnik.com.  [03/01/2001 - 04/01/2001] Reference

• It's Glee's second awards show win in as many weekends, and ostensive leads.    From Wordnik.com.  [E! Online (US) - Top Stories] Reference

Only a few hours into the marriage, and I'd become the victim of an pseudo-ostensive action.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Urban Legends] Reference

No period is so richly guilty of abusing the primary ostensive function of language - of shouting.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe] Reference

At first Dr. Martin's ostensive reason for not wanting the debate recorded was that he did not want to (indirectly) benefit a.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference

But the fact that there exists deprecation of his act is ostensive of the fact that this particular act of his does not conform to some objective morality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference

The ostensive Reduction of Baroco also needs special explanation; for as it used to be reduced indirectly, its name gives no indication of the ostensive process.    From Wordnik.com.  [Logic Deductive and Inductive] Reference

1.2 Dictionary definitions and ostensive definitions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Definitions] Reference

I have always observed, that where one scheme answers two purposes, the ostensive is never the purpose most at heart.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cecilia] Reference

Dictionary definitions and ostensive definitions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Definitions] Reference

I have always observed, that where one scheme answers two purposes, the ostensive is never the purpose most at heart. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 3] Reference

And it is the ostensive death of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mises Dailies] Reference

Explain the meaning of "ostensive" and "indirect" Reduction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Logic Deductive and Inductive] Reference