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ostensive::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
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An ostensive definition conveys the meaning of a term by pointing out examples.
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Let us first consider a case of ostensive definition in a public language.
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Early in The Investigations, Wittgenstein attacks the usefulness of ostensive definition.
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One important form of the extensional definition is ostensive definition.
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The process of ostensive definition itself was critically appraised by Ludwig Wittgenstein.
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We can justify our use of the new name T by making the ostensive definition more or less explicit.
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Ostensive definitions rely on an analogical or case-based reasoning by the subject they are intended to.
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Wittgenstein rejects the idea that ostensive definitions can provide us with the meaning of a word.
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So memory scepticism could be applied with equal effect to ostensive definitions given in a public language.
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- Manifestly demonstrative
- Ostensible: represented or appearing as such; pretended; "His ostensible purpose was charity, his real goal popularity"
- An ostensive definition conveys the meaning of a term by pointing out examples. This type of definition is often used where the term is difficult to define verbally, either because the words will not be understood (as with children and new speakers of a language) or because of the nature of the ...
- Apparently true, but not necessarily; ostensible; Clearly demonstrative
- An ostensive (or ostensible) definition is not really a definition at all; it is the showing of an example. Thus, when a child asks, "What is a book?" the parent might hold up a book and say, "This is a book."
