Ostensible

Capable of being shown; proper or intended to be shown.

Shown; exhibited; declared; avowed; professed; apparent; -- often used as opposed to real or actual; as, an ostensible reason, motive, or aim.

appearing as such but not necessarily so; "for all his apparent wealth, he had no money to pay the rent"; "the committee investigated some apparent discrepancies"; "the ostensible truth of their theories"; "his seeming honesty"