ostensive

adjective

Seeming or professed; ostensible.

Showing; betokening.

Setting forth a general principle by virtue of which a proposition must be true. The old logicians supposed all strict proof to be either of this nature or else apagogic.

adjective

Showing; exhibiting.

adjective

a direct or positive demonstration, as opposed to the apagogical or indirect method.

adjective

Apparently true, but not necessarily; ostensible

adjective

Clearly demonstrative.

adjective

represented or appearing as such; pretended

adjective

manifestly demonstrative