absurdum

Reductio ad absurdum is straightforwardly translatable to уменьшение до глупости in Russian, for example.

The Volokh Conspiracy » PC 2010

Commercially valuable varie­ties had these virtues, and also looks and durability — the requisites whose reductio ad absurdum is the Red Delicious.

Beyond the McIntosh 2008

Commercially valuable varie­ties had these virtues, and also looks and durability — the requisites whose reductio ad absurdum is the Red Delicious.

Beyond the McIntosh 2008

The reductio ad absurdum is related to a familiar form of proof in logic: You make an assumption and then derive from it a contradiction or a known falsehood by a series of valid inferences.

Fun with Hair Splitting 2004

Mix a powerful imagination with a logic in absurdum, and the result will be either a paradox or an Irishman.

Nobel Prize in Literature 1969 - Presentation Speech 1970

I doubt that even the most gender fluid person changes hir identification “hour-by-hour, minute-by-minute”, and the writer’s use of such reductio ab absurdum is frankly offensive.

Cis centrism and the Equality Bill 2009

Later, Brouwer pointed out the following consequence of the validity of ¬¬¬A ‡” ¬A: the proof method of reductio ad absurdum, which is not generally correct (not

The Development of Intuitionistic Logic van Atten, Mark 2009

The substantial reason for rejecting a philosophical theory is the 'absurdum' to which it reduces us.

The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 Alfred North Whitehead 1904

In the case of the philosophy of natural science the 'absurdum' can only be that our perceptual knowledge has not the character assigned to it by the theory.

The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 Alfred North Whitehead 1904

Then the ad absurdum comparisons, if Stewart is Twain, then Colbert is Zola!

- r_urell 2009