Few of the professors with whom we spoke were aware of elementary school principals' increased responsibility to supervise ECE classrooms, nor did they understand the
ostensive purpose of TK to be a lever for bridging early childhood with elementary schooling.
Their nature is purely
ostensive (Feldman & Pentland, 2003).
Under the relevance-theoretic account, the human cognitive system aims at maximising relevance; therefore the interpretation of any
ostensive stimulus is expected to demand the investment of the smallest possible cognitive effort to derive the greatest possible contextual effects (meanings) (Sperber & Wilson, 1986).
"If the old ideology was the activity of installing a normative and interpretive code of textual inspiration supported by education, the new ideology is
ostensive rather than explicitly normative.
This sixth phase is important to understanding routines in its
ostensive and performative aspect.
Mathematics, so far, is derivative of entailment and propositions, bought at the price of carving the world into categories, "cat" and "mat" where, however,
ostensive definitions are famously ambiguous.
All nominal definitions, if pushed back far enough, must lead ultimately to terms having only
ostensive definitions, and in the case of an empirical science the empirical terms must depend upon terms of which the
ostensive definition is given in perception.
Nevertheless, understanding virtues through their
ostensive examples has limitations.
The contradictory nature of the artist's destructive/ constructive process generates tensions between
ostensive opposites of all kinds.
From this perspective, the
ostensive "gap" between vision and execution in neoliberal governance exists because neoliberal policies were never in fact intended to function as in the public interest in the first place.
Bufacchi attempts to improve upon more
ostensive depictions of injustice via various lists of injustices, and identifies injustice as principally a matter of the distribution of benefits, resources, burdens, and the like.
Such conceptual ironies project an epistemic content that replaced the word's
ostensive significance as verbal meaning elided into abstract form.
The emotive meaning applied by arts educators to the term is important because this unfavorable connotation of its meaning, as argued by Wittgenstein in his later work Philosophical Investigations, has come about through its use, its
ostensive definition.
