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The summit is ostensively being held to address the development of transport and energy systems on the continent.— AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)
The word "fundamental" does not always mean the same as: the primitive, the primary, the irreducible, that which is directly given in perception, the ostensively defined, etc.— iMechanica - Comments
Neither is a primitive, primary or an ostensively defined concept.— iMechanica - Comments
I would suppose that physics is a science sufficiently basic that its fundamental concepts would need to be ostensively defined (in contrast to the mechanics of materials).— iMechanica - Comments
This is brought out "ostensively," as Bacon would say, in "Don Quixote," or in the Russian novel "A Simple Story"--apparently so called because it is so complex--in which Gontcharov's hero lives in what Alice might call "behind the looking-glass" of literature.— Without Prejudice

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