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Meanings of reduction to absurdity in English

Russian
доведение до абсурда
Portuguese
reductio ad absurdum
Spanish
reductio ad absurdum
Catalan
reducció a l'absurd

Form of argument in informal logic.

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доведение до абсурда
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Examples for "reductio ad absurdum"
Examples for "reductio ad absurdum"
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If this be not a reductio ad absurdum, we do not know what is.
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2
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I have followed it up, and I find your theory a ' reductio ad absurdum.'
A Beautiful Possibility
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Many interpreters have regarded the Parmenides as a ' reductio ad absurdum' of the Eleatic philosophy.
Parmenides
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Is not such an alternative so extravagant as to be a complete reductio ad absurdum?
The Christian Life: Its Course, Its Hindrances, and Its Helps
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But they may also represent a reductio ad absurdum because the figures simply don't stack up.
The Irish Times
1
Tipler also offers his own theory on sex in the afterlife, conveniently reducing his argument to absurdity.
Skeptics and true believers: the exhilarating connection between...
Usage of reduction to absurdity in English
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No reduction to absurdity could be more thorough.
History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
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