Definition of "ostensively" [os•ten•sive•ly]

• In an ostensive manner. (adverb)
• Ostensibly. (adverb)

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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"
• "~ Re-Engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings -- Many current philosophers, even ostensively naturalist ones, are rightly accused of doing philosophy in a way that actually keeps it hermetically closed against science."
• "In addition, the hearer has to look for the contents or assumptions the speaker ostensively intends her to consider."