ostension

Many local media panics are based in this form of ostension.

Sometimes, the two substances are even mixed together, in a further ostension of this legend.

Ambiguity of ostension is a topic found in basic philosophy text books.

Ostension in folkloristics is the process of acting out a folk narrative.

However, there may have been some ostension of this legend in 2007 involving a few individuals in Texas.

Quine presents a behavioral theory in which the child acquires language through a process of conditioning and ostension.

His work is concerned with ostension.

But his language is not the solipsist's; it is not set up by ostension of private sensations which serve as samples.

Redemption Rumors and the Power of Ostension"."

Jeff Tolbert also accepts the Slender Man as folkloric and suggests it represents a process he calls "reverse ostension."

Pointing leads to a conundrum referred to in philosophy as the ambiguity of ostension or the fallacy of mere pointing.

Since most of the increase happened after 2000, this legend can be considered an example of ostension (people have been making such claims as far back as the 1970s).

Unlike ostension, which is the act of showing or pointing to a sample, exemplification is possession of a property plus reference to its label (Goodman, 1976).

But the sheer sensuousness of experience, the painfulness of the pain, the smell and taste and color of the orange, reduce most theorists to inarticulate ostension.

The app "is a kind of digital ostension," said Father Roberto Gottardo, vice-president of the diocesan commission that handles matters related to the shroud.

Dégh and Vázsonyi, followed by other analysts, argued that there were two other forms of ostension that did not necessarily involve literal acting out of legends.

The term ostension is also used by those who study folklore and urban legends to indicate real-life happenings that parallel the events told in pre-existing and well-established legends and lore.

If he did indeed act as he describes, it can be regarded as a good example of what folklorists (following terminology established by Linda Degh) now call "ostension" and legend tripping.

In May 2009, partial ostension of this legend may have occurred when an Ohio man high on PCP allegedly tried to put his 28-day-old son into a conventional oven, only to be stopped in time by the child's mother.

In at least one notorious case, years of destructive legend-tripping, amounting to an "ostensive frenzy," led to the fatal shooting of a legend-tripper near Lincoln, Nebraska followed by the wounding of the woman whose house had become the focus of the ostension.

Emplacement-déplacement IV, II ostension du corps de Marianne Ripp (Location - Travel IV, II ostension of Marianne Ripp's body), Anton Weller Gallery, Paris.

The concept was applied to contemporary legends by folklorists Linda Dégh and Andrew Vázsonyi, who argued that the most direct form of ostension involved committing an actual crime mentioned in a well-known urban legend, such as microwaving someone's pet animal or placing poison in a child's Halloween candy.