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ostensive

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ostensive
1. obviously or manifestly demonstrative
2. Philosophy (of a definition) given by demonstrative means, esp by pointing


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Sources in the UN have told the IGLA organizers that the ostensive reason for the premature suspension is that the commission's mandate is finished, but the real reason is that the U.
Words whose referents are things in the real world can be taught by ostensive definition, simply by pointing to their referents.
The first school of thought asserts that a scale must demonstrate ostensive (visualizable) interval properties before a person can perform arithmetic operations on the data from it.
 
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