• Ostension is the act of showing or demonstrating something. In communication theory and especially in relevance theory, ostensive behaviour or ostension...
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  • familiar in philosophical literature" (Passmore 1966, p. 344). Look up ostension in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Comprehension Enumerative definition...
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    by the wounding of the woman whose house had become the focus of the ostension. The panic over youth Satanism in the 1980s was fueled in part by graffiti...
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  • Ostension: Word Learning and the Embodied Mind is a 2014 book by Chad Engelland in which the author provides a philosophical introduction to ostension...
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  • The Limousin septennial ostensions (French: Ostensions limousines) is a series of religious processions in commemoration of the relics of Roman Catholic...
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    the legends, "occasionally become dramatic enactments known as "ostension"". Ostension, according to Magliocco, "always derives from a pre-existing legend...
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  • symbols), to which he proposed four modes of sign production: recognition, ostension, replica, and invention. Julia Kristeva (born 1941), a student of Lucien...
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    Geistesleben. p. 60. ISBN 978-3772512735. Quine, W. V. (1950). Identity, Ostension, and Hypostasis. The Journal of Philosophy, 47(22), 621. doi:10.2307/2021795...
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    English artist and documentary filmmaker. His work is concerned with ostension. Underpinning all of his work is an interest in how myth and artifice...
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    folkloric and suggests it represents a process he calls "reverse ostension". Ostension in folkloristics is the process of acting out a folk narrative....
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