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• Motives, of course, may be mixed; but this only means that a man aims at a variety of goals by means of the same course of action. Similarly a man may have a strong motive or a weak one, an ulterior motive or an ostensible one.
• In witch-trials the conflict was officially defined as between the accused and God, or between the accused and the Catholic (later Protestant) church, as God's earthly representative. [...] Behind the ostensible conflict of the witch-trial lay the usual conflicts of social class, values, and human relationships.
• The ostensible reason for his visit to New York was to see his mother, but the real reason was to get to the Yankees game the next day.