ostensively

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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.

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  1. In appearance; ostensibly. In dirty hue, with naked feet, In rags and tatters stroll the street; Ostensively exceeding wise. Lloyd, Familiar Epistle to a Friend. She had made up her mind to ignore, ostensively if not also from conviction, his pretensions to relationship with her. J. Hawthorne, Dust, p. 241.

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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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