reductio ad absurdum in English
Opposition to stem-cell research is the reductio ad absurdum of the right-to-life argument.
Use "reductio ad absurdum" in a sentence
1. He's engaging in reductio ad absurdum.
2. This is expressed in the Latin maxim, reductio ad absurdum.
3. The criterion of “subject-matter” leads to a reductio ad absurdum.
4. The criterion of “subject-matter” leads to a reductio ad absurdum
5. And, if so, why not, reductio ad absurdum, begin monthly mammograms at age 15?
6. I admit this is reductio ad absurdum, but I hope you see the danger that this kind of practice poses
7. Tweeter Jack R Herman seems to be using Reductio ad absurdum (Latin: “reduction to absurdity”) in response to Muehlenberg's argument.
8. 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.
9. Reductio ad absurdum [reduktsio], reductio ad adversum, väite kummutamine selle arendamisena Absurdini või vastandini, vastuväiteline tõestusviis
10. Archimedes' Proposition 24 applies the finite (but indeterminate) sum in Proposition 23 to the area inside a parabola by a double reductio ad absurdum.
11. 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.
12. 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."
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. 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.
16. (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.
17. 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.
18. 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
19. 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.
20. 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.
21. 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.