reductio ad absurdumin a sentence
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Extend her premise to its logical outcome and it becomes a reductio ad absurdum.
reductio ad absurdum = a type of logical argument in which one assumes a claim for the sake of argument, derives an absurd outcome, and therefore concludes that the original assumption must have been wrong
- He went after it first, using the reductio ad absurdum.† (source)
- Reductio ad absurdum.† (source)
- If such a thing were needed as a reductio ad absurdum of the enforcement of contract, such a folly would do that for us.† (source)
- [25] So long ago as 1867, Gould protested against this elision as barbarous and idiotic, and drew up the following /reductio ad absurdum/: At last annual meeting of Black Book Society, honorable John Smith took the chair, assisted by reverend John Brown and venerable John White† (source)