ostensive

Let us first consider a case of ostensive definition in a public language.

Another is that "an ostensive definition can be variously interpreted in every case".

We can justify our use of the new name T by making the ostensive definition more or less explicit.

This is similar to an ostensive definition, in which one or more members of a set (but not necessarily all) are pointed out as examples.

Furthermore, it contains within its definition an ostensive demonstration of what is meant by "three times".

Ostensive procedures include the use of objects (and actions and situations).

An ostensive definition conveys the meaning of a term by pointing out examples.

Pointing - known as ostensive definition - is in fact the commonest way of defining something.

Wittgenstein rejects the idea that ostensive definitions can provide us with the meaning of a word.

One important form of the extensional definition is ostensive definition.

So memory scepticism could be applied with equal effect to ostensive definitions given in a public language.

Unless ostensive objects are thus pointed to and identified, how could anyone ever learn their names?)

Ostensive definition assumes the questioner has sufficient understanding to recognize the type of information being given.

This approach has been criticized for its dismissal of the importance of ostensive definitions.

They are classes in: human rights, control of civil riots, ostensive policing, crisis management and shooting techniques.

The ostensive stimulus is the most relevant one compatible with the communicator's abilities and preferences.

The ostensive stimulus is relevant enough for it to be worth the addressee's effort to process it.

Ostensive definitions rely on an analogical or case-based reasoning by the subject they are intended to.

This is ostensive definition.

Early in The Investigations, Wittgenstein attacks the usefulness of ostensive definition.

The process of ostensive definition itself was critically appraised by Ludwig Wittgenstein.

It works much of the time, particularly for highly denotative ostensive objects; but it creates ludicrous results when applied to simple things.

In general, then, ostensive definition relies upon the previous existence of conceptual knowledge, and cannot be the first source of such knowledge.

In principle for every genus a type species must be indicated to serve as its type in an ostensive definition.

A second alternative is the suggestion that the meaning of concepts is established through observation, by way of ostensive definition.