absurdum in English

noun

[əb'sɜrddʌm /əb'sɜːd-]

from the Latin phrase "ad absurdum" (to the point of absurdity)

Use "absurdum" in a sentence

1. Absurdini viimisega, ad absurdum

2. He's engaging in reductio ad absurdum.

3. 28 Argumentum ad absurdum: why stop there, in fact?

4. Parliament could conduct itself ad absurdum in this way.

5. The criterion of “subject-matter” leads to a reductio ad absurdum.

6. This is expressed in the Latin maxim, reductio ad absurdum.

7. Program claims also lead the patent system ad absurdum.

8. The criterion of “subject-matter” leads to a reductio ad absurdum

9. That would push our own paper and our own credibility ad absurdum.

10. And, if so, why not, reductio ad absurdum, begin monthly mammograms at age 15?

11. Positive Degree; Feminine Masculine Neuter; Singular; Nominative: Absurda: Absurdus: Absurdum: Genitive: Absurdae: Absurdi: Absurdi: Dative: Absurdae: Absurdo

12. Credo quia absurdum (I believe because it is absurd) is not a formula that interprets the Catholic faith.

13. I admit this is reductio ad absurdum, but I hope you see the danger that this kind of practice poses

14. Tweeter Jack R Herman seems to be using Reductio ad absurdum (Latin: “reduction to absurdity”) in response to Muehlenberg's argument.

15. Regardless of comparability of results, such a development would largely reduce ad absurdum the ideal of an analogy between individual and team sports.

16. With the tighter provisions envisaged here, I see a risk that the report's intention, namely to simplify, will be pursued ad absurdum.

17. In numerous propaganda videos, brochures and posters, OLAF took elements and arguments of the SVP's populist campaign and exaggerated them ad absurdum.

18. Locutions, idioms and examples cognitu non absurda ab absurdo absurdum est (+ infinitive) aetati non absurdum vox absurda absurdus orator = orator without ability absurdissima mandata = absurd intentions Valens non absurdus ingenio absurdam in Adulationem progressus = to push oneself to an absurd adulation vox absona et absurda aetati alicuius res absurda

19. Asimov wrote this story as the logical culmination – and/or possibly the reductio ad absurdum – of UNIVAC's ability to forecast election results from small samples.

20. Reductio ad absurdum [reduktsio], reductio ad adversum, väite kummutamine selle arendamisena Absurdini või vastandini, vastuväiteline tõestusviis

21. Archimedes' Proposition 24 applies the finite (but indeterminate) sum in Proposition 23 to the area inside a parabola by a double reductio ad absurdum.

22. The milk quota system was introduced precisely in order to reduce milk production and now we are to take it ad absurdum with BST.

23. That people would also be obliged to intervene in nature has been used as a reductio ad absurdum against the position that animals have rights.

24. But the great Vilayat Khan had spoken. He had given me an original answer and he had put the question ad absurdum with his presence.

25. So if we accept the self-concept criterion, then we must also accept that killing children is acceptable in addition to killing cows, which is considered a reductio ad absurdum.

26. Only by reductio ad absurdum could we imagine a case of harassment that is not sex discrimination - where a bisexual supervisor harasses men and women alike."

27. There is, indeed, a reductio ad absurdum, since any service can ultimately be ‘connected’ in one way or another with an immovable property, understood as a delimited space.

28. Naturally we are categorically opposed to a threshold for unlicensed genetically modified food, because that would really push the Commission's objective of greater food safety ad absurdum.

29. My proposal is bolstered by the unfortunate consequences which would result from a negative reply to the first question, in accordance with the reductio ad absurdum theory.

30. However, in accordance with the legal principles 'nulla quia absurdum ' and 'ad impossibilia nemo tenetur ', I cannot admit a motion of censure on a body which has already resigned.

31. But eventually these high returns reduce the payouts to investors (Bernie Madoff may be the reduction ad absurdum of this phenomenon) and slow the growth of the sector.

32. (PL) Mr President, the current totalitarian regime in Iran can best be described as having undertaken a reductio ad absurdum of the law, and resorted to the psychology of terror.

33. Proof by Contradiction (also known as indirect proof or the technique or method of reductio ad absurdum) is just one of the few proof techniques that are used to prove mathematical propositions or theorems.

34. The photograph stems from a series of works entitled "Photographs of Small Worlds," which ingeniously, slyly and subtly play with our sense of perception, as well as with our expectations -- taking both ad absurdum.

35. This is proved by reduction ad absurdum through two Apodoses, as follows: If P, then M — and — if P, then N (original major premise) and P (denial of conclusion) so, M and N (contrary of minor)

36. And in that case, I consider, the conclusion would be not the reductio ad absurdum which the French Government seeks to establish but rather that all the invitations to tender would have had to be notified in the OJEC.

37. Reductio ad absurdum is a mode of argumentation that seeks to establish a contention by deriving an Absurdity from its denial, thus arguing that a thesis must be accepted because its rejection would be untenable

38. Unfortunately, it does not go without saying that in our examination we must avoid the fallacy that in the last decades has frequently been used as a substitute for the reductio ad absurdum: the reductio ad Hitlerum.

39. The project thus resonates with the great romantic yearning for another reality - free of the constraints of efficiency and utility - while ultimately developing it ad absurdum by showing how its promises lack consequences as it churns in circles without going anywhere.

40. If however the court replaces law it cannot simultaneously be subject to the equality guaranteed by law. Due to its sovereignty it is rather withdrawn with the effect that the principle of equality in itself is lead ad absurdum (III.).

41. It shows in what respect the concept of list is directed against the ethos of self-representation through knightly exploits (kraft), which, while appearing to culminate in the amassment of the great battle-scenes, is in fact carried ad absurdum.

42. Contra: Intellectus non efficitur in actu nisi per Abstractionem a phantasmatibus: si igitur habet intellectum, aut ille intellectus nunquam erit in actu et sic erit sicut dormiens, aut oportet quod habeat phantasiam et sensibilem animam, et hoc absurdum est ponere in coelo”

43. In his frequently serialised works, Torres either meticulously conforms to the laws of the market to find ways of leading these ad absurdum, or suggests alternative possibilities operating outside of predetermined structures that arise as soon as there is a scarcity of money.

44. Proof by Contradiction Proof by Contradiction (also known as indirect proof or the method of reductio ad absurdum) is a common proof technique that is based on a very simple principle: something that leads to a Contradiction can not be true, and if so, the opposite must be true.

45. Cum nimis absurdum et inconveniens existat ut iudaei, quos propria culpa perpetuae servituti submisit, sub praetextu quod pietas christiana illos receptet et eorum Cohabitationem sustineat, christianis adeo sint ingrati, ut, eis pro gratia, contumelian reddant, et in eos, pro servitute, quam illis debent, dominatum vendicare procurent: nos, ad

46. Cum nimis absurdum et inconveniens existat ut iudaei, quos propria culpa perpetuae servituti submisit, sub praetextu quod pietas christiana illos receptet et eorum Cohabitationem sustineat, christianis adeo sint ingrati, ut, eis pro gratia, contumelian reddant, et in eos, pro servitute, quam illis debent, dominatum vendicare procurent: nos, ad quorum notitiam nuper devenit eosdem iudaeos in