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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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Nor, by definition, can what "means" means be explained ostensively.
Morris himself describes the artist-writer of his generation as a construction that subverts the notion of a "transcendent individual identity": "The artist as journalistic antihero ostensively locating his art replaces the Romantic artist who would draw his art out of himself as he resists absorption by either nature or culture.
His remedy for this condition of chaos and violence ostensively recoils from Augustine's resort to coercion.
 
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