| Here the object may be named by ostension, or the reference of the name may be fixed by a description. |
| Similarly, Searle acknowledged that ostension, by virtue of the intentions of a pointer, fits the descriptivist thesis. |
| In the natural kind case, which is rather more of an idealization than the case of a concrete particular, the original naming ceremony picks out a natural kind via an ostension of one of its samples. |
| The physical labour required to produce the expression, that is, recognition, ostension, replica or intention. |
| As collective nouns have only been introduced by ostension until now, perhaps some further elucidation is in order. |
| And ostension is one perfectly familiar way of introducing a concept. |
