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.