Reductio ad absurdum (Latin: `reduction to absurdity`; pl.: reductiones ad absurdum), also known as argumentum ad absurdum (Latin: argument to absurdity), is a common form of argument which seeks to demonstrate that a statement is true by showing that a false, untenable, or absurd result follows from its denial, or in turn to demonstrate that a .....
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(Latin: `reduction to absurdity`), in logic, a form of refutation showing contradictory or absurd consequences following upon premises as a matter ... [5 related articles]
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'Reduction to the absurd;' the process of demonstrating that an idea is probably false by first assuming its truth, and then showing how that truth leads to conclusions which can't possibly be true. In A Mathematician's Apology (1941),
1 G. H. Hardy said: 'Reductio ad absurdum,...
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Method of proof in which it is initially assumed that the proposition which it is desired to prove is not true. If it can then be shown that this assumption leads logically to a contradiction or...
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Redictio ad absurdum is Latin for The reduction of an argument to absurdity
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n] - (reduction to the absurd) a disproof by showing that the consequences of the proposition are absurd
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reductio noun (reduction to the absurd) a disproof by showing that the consequences of the proposition are absurd; or a proof of a proposition by showing that its negation leads to a contradiction
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The method of proving a proposition by deducing a contradiction from the negation of the proposition taken together with other propositions which were previously proved or are granted. It may thus be described as the valid inference of the propositional calculus from three premisses, B and B[~A] ? C and B[~A] ? ~C, to the concl...
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Literally 'reduction to absurdity.' In logic, this technique disproves a statement by extending its implications to a nonsensical consequence. Gerald Mast applies the term to the type of comedy that begins with a simple premise, then extends and exaggerates it to an absurd level.
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