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Such has been the trope of the rom-com since Carole Lombard crumpled in the arms of John Barrymore, but today’s ostensive “trainwrecks” transcend the genre and the Hollywood arena.

From Salon • Aug. 10, 2015

Apagogic, -al, ap-a-goj′ik, -al, adj. proving indirectly by an apagoge or reduction to an absurdity, the truth of the thesis being evinced through the falsehood of its opposite—opposed to direct or ostensive proof.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

No proof, in a question of that nature, can be so showy and ostensive to a stranger, as that which is supplied by this vindictive pamphlet.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 by Various

Reduction of propositions, 667. of the dilemma, 796. of disjunctive syllogisms, 766. indirect, 691. mnemonics for, 697. ostensive or direct, 673. of partly conjunctive syllogisms, 744.

From Deductive Logic by Stock, St. George William Joseph

No proof, in a question of that nature, can be so showy and ostensive to a stranger as that which is supplied by this vindictive pamphlet.

From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2 by De Quincey, Thomas