| 单词 | ostensive reduction |
| 释义 | > as lemmasostensive reduction ostensive reduction n. Logic reduction by the direct processes of conversion, permutation, and transposition (opposed to indirect reduction). ΚΠ 1697 tr. F. Burgersdijck Monitio Logica ii. ix. 42 Reduction is either ostensive or else by way of impossible.] a1831 R. Whately Logic in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) I. 211 In these ways (which are called Ostensive Reduction..) all the imperfect Moods may be reduced to the four perfect ones. 1870 W. S. Jevons Elem. Lessons Logic xvii. 150 The simpler process of direct or as it is often called ostensive reduction. 1962 T. P. Kiernan Aristotle Dict. 34 A demonstration to the impossible differs from the ostensive reduction in that it admits what it wishes to subvert leading to an acknowledged falsehood, but the ostensive commences from the assumed premises. < as lemmas |
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