REDUCTIO AD ABSURDUM


Meaning of REDUCTIO AD ABSURDUM in English

noun Etymology: Late Latin, literally, reduction to the absurd Date: 1741 disproof of a proposition by showing an absurdity to which it leads when carried to its logical conclusion, the carrying of something to an absurd extreme

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