What fool suggested that?
The violence of plainclothes thugs is demonstrative: it suggests that the government may be trying to evade international criticism, as the use of thugs provides a measure of deniability, however implausible.
Russell eventually concluded that things in the world can be talked about only through the medium of a special kind of name in particular, one about which no question can arise whether it names something or not and he suggested that in English the only possible candidates are the demonstrative pronouns this and that.
In the Essay and other works, Locke had suggested that morality could be known by reason and had emphasized the demonstrative character of morality — thereby making a claim to the certainty with which moral ideas could be known.
When another blogger suggested that Google had bought Pyra to harness the news-spotting power of the Weblog collective, Mr. Williams responded on his site, "I can't speak to that exactly, but how it all went down was very demonstrative".
When another blogger suggested that Google had bought Pyra to harness the news-spotting power of the Weblog collective, Mr. Williams responded on his site, "I can't speak to that exactly, but how it all went down was very demonstrative". He also said Google and Pyra, whose six employees now work for Google, were still mapping out Blogger's future.
Marga Reimer (1991a, 1992), taking up a suggestion that Kaplan introduced in his (1978) but then later abandoned, suggests that when true demonstratives like 'this' and 'that' are accompanied by ostensive gestures, then the referent itself must lie in the general direction indicated by that gesture.
That the CTR tasks are acceptable and demonstrative is suggested by the number of platforms that have adopted them, including Open Babel, which has provided a tutorial showing how to do each of them.
Science-fiction writer John Peel describes it as "ostensibly a return to the 'series stars' concept long known in TV", while Garland suggests that such imagery is demonstrative of Anderson's commitment to "incremental realism" via the convergence of human and puppet characteristics.
At one point Grosseteste states that only mathematics is comprised of demonstrations in this strict sense, though in another passage he suggests that theology would most fully meet these conditions, apparently meaning that the demonstrative knowledge possible for us in this life (mathematics) is to be distinguished from that which is possible in the afterlife (theology).
