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What does ostensive mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word ostensive? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Apparently true, but not necessarily; ostensible
  2. Clearly demonstrative.
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An ostensive definitions can also be explicative.
Thus, the ostensive division between smoking and no smoking space was already established in the family space, foreseeing what later would happen in a broad social space.
The ostensive definition suffers from the drawback that one has to know what an EG is before one can point to it.
Those results are ostensive evidence implying the contribution of apparent motion mechanisms to ILM perception.
To assume this identity existence, in an ostensive homogenization of the smoking ban would be a primary mistake reading of what actually happens, and that makes impossible the evaluation of the process at issue.
Like nearly all definitions, Bell's is really more ostensive than analytic, better achieved by pointing than by phrasing.

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