In logic, reductio ad absurdum (Latin for "reduction to absurdity"), also known as argumentum ad absurdum (Latin for "argument to absurdity") or apagogical...
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Invented by Leo Strauss in 1953, reductio ad Hitlerum takes its name from the term used in logic called reductio ad absurdum ("reduction to the absurd")....
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Appeal to the stone (redirect from Ad lapidem fallacy)
needed] Appeal to the stone shares similarities in structure to reductio ad absurdum (Latin for “reduction to absurdity”) which states that an argument's...
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Wigner's friend (section As a reductio ad absurdum)
As Ballentine recounts, Wigner regarded his 1961 argument as a reductio ad absurdum, indicating that the postulates of quantum mechanics need to be revised...
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Absurdity (section Reductio ad absurdum)
reaching a false conclusion, called an "absurdity" (argument by reductio ad absurdum). Plato describes himself as not using absurd argumentation against...
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Modus tollens (section Via reductio ad absurdum)
\neg Q} Conjunction introduction (2,4) 6 ¬ P {\displaystyle \neg P} Reductio ad absurdum (3,5) 7 ¬ Q → ¬ P {\displaystyle \neg Q\rightarrow \neg P} Conditional...
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did. Physicists use the Boltzmann brain thought experiment as a reductio ad absurdum argument for evaluating competing scientific theories. In contrast...
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In mathematics, a Gödel numbering for sequences provides an effective way to represent each finite sequence of natural numbers as a single natural number...
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Appeal to ridicule (redirect from Reductio ad ridiculum)
Earth and broke apart a giant landmass into many different pieces. Reductio ad absurdum Straw man (a similar fallacy) Moore, Brooke Noel (2015). Critical...
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superiority, deformity, and incongruity. Reductio ad absurdum is a valid method of argument, while reductio ad ridiculum is invalid. Argument by invective...
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