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demonstration

DEMONSTRATION, n.

1. The act of demonstrating, or of exhibiting certain proof.

2. The highest degree of evidence; certain proof exhibited, or such proof as establishes a fact or proposition beyond a possibility of doubt, or as shows the contrary position to be absurd or impossible.

3. Indubitable evidence of the senses, or of reason; evidence which satisfies the mind of the certainty of a fact or proposition. Thus we hold that the works of nature exhibit demonstration of the existence of a God.

4. In logic, a series of syllogisms, all whose premises are either definitions, self-evident truths, or propositions already established.

5. Show; exhibition.

6. In anatomy, the exhibition of parts dissected.


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DEMONSTRATION, n.

1. The act of demonstrating, or of exhibiting certain proof.

2. The highest degree of evidence; certain proof exhibited, or such proof as establishes a fact or proposition beyond a possibility of doubt, or as shows the contrary position to be absurd or impossible.

3. Indubitable evidence of the senses, or of reason; evidence which satisfies the mind of the certainty of a fact or proposition. Thus we hold that the works of nature exhibit demonstration of the existence of a God.

4. In logic, a series of syllogisms, all whose premises are either definitions, self-evident truths, or propositions already established.

5. Show; exhibition.

6. In anatomy, the exhibition of parts dissected.

DEM-ON-STRA'TION, n.

  1. The act of demonstrating, or of exhibiting certain proof.
  2. The highest degree of evidence; certain proof exhibited, or such proof as establishes a fact or proposition beyond a possibility of doubt, or as shows the contrary position to be absurd or impossible.
  3. Indubitable evidence of the senses, or of reason; evidence which satisfies the mind of the certainty of a fact or proposition. Thus, we hold that the works of nature exhibit demonstration of the existence of a God.
  4. In logic a series of syllogisms, all whose premises are either definitions, self-evident truths, or propositions already established. – Encyc.
  5. Show; exhibition. – Mitford.
  6. In anatomy, the exhibition of parts dissected.
  7. In military affairs, a movement of troops toward a given point, as if to make an attack.

Dem`on*stra"tion
  1. The act of demonstrating; an exhibition; proof; especially, proof beyond the possibility of doubt; indubitable evidence, to the senses or reason.

    Those intervening ideas which serve to show the agreement of any two others are called "proofs;" and where agreement or disagreement is by this means plainly and clearly perceived, it is called demonstration. Locke.

  2. An expression, as of the feelings, by outward signs; a manifestation; a show.

    Did your letters pierce the queen to any demonstration of grief? Shak.

    Loyal demonstrations toward the prince. Prescott.

  3. The exhibition and explanation of a dissection or other anatomical preparation.
  4. (Mil.) a decisive exhibition of force, or a movement indicating an attack.
  5. The act of proving by the syllogistic process, or the proof itself.
  6. A course of reasoning showing that a certain result is a necessary consequence of assumed premises; -- these premises being definitions, axioms, and previously established propositions.

    Direct, or Positive, demonstration (Logic *** Math.), one in which the correct conclusion is the immediate sequence of reasoning from axiomatic or established premises] -- opposed to Indirect, or Negative, demonstration (called also reductio ad absurdum), in which the correct conclusion is an inference from the demonstration that any other hypothesis must be incorrect.

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Demonstration

DEMONSTRATION, noun

1. The act of demonstrating, or of exhibiting certain proof.

2. The highest degree of evidence; certain proof exhibited, or such proof as establishes a fact or proposition beyond a possibility of doubt, or as shows the contrary position to be absurd or impossible.

3. Indubitable evidence of the senses, or of reason; evidence which satisfies the mind of the certainty of a fact or proposition. Thus we hold that the works of nature exhibit demonstration of the existence of a God.

4. In logic, a series of syllogisms, all whose premises are either definitions, self-evident truths, or propositions already established.

5. Show; exhibition.

6. In anatomy, the exhibition of parts dissected.

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