| The argument that says no individual has power leads to a reductio ad absurdum. |
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| For some reason, this strikes me as the reductio ad absurdum of the whole project. |
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| Opposition to stem-cell research is the reductio ad absurdum of the right-to-life argument. |
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| It's an entertaining reductio ad absurdum against those who complain about the unfairness of low-cost production by foreigners. |
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| Now, with her mother dead, she ascends into a reductio ad absurdum of the celebrity culture. |
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| It would be only fitting, the reductio ad absurdum of our divided age, for this election to take two extra months. |
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| One use of modus tollens is the reductio ad absurdum argument, i.e. showing that a premise is false by demonstrating that it implies an absurd conclusion. |
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| As symbol, Phelps was the reductio ad absurdum of many conservative beliefs. |
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| With the tighter provisions envisaged here, I see a risk that the report's intention, namely to simplify, will be pursued ad absurdum. |
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| Acceptance of originalism, it is charged, would necessitate the reversal of crucially important landmark decisions and thereby provides a reduction ad absurdum of originalism. |
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| Also, employing reductio ad absurdum to show the rigor of syllogistical uses, is a recognition that it's exterior and prior to the syllogism. |
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| In common speech the term reductio ad absurdum refers to anything pushed to absurd extremes. |
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| The International Wine Institute is endeavouring to find a globally valid definition of wine, and this is being taken ad absurdum. |
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| This is at the same time a difference with the ordinary hypothetical syllogism: insincerity essentially colors the reductio ad absurdum. |
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| This seems to be a reductio ad absurdum of the complex and sometimes paradoxical workings of the law of cause and effect. |
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| 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. |
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| One could give further examples ad infinitum and even ad absurdum. |
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| This reductio ad absurdum is pure Stoppard. |
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| He created what he thought of as a reductio ad absurdum. |
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| The person striving for a reductio ad absurdum sees things differently. |
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| Aristotle emphasizes a peerless advantage of the reductio ad absurdum, among the hypothetical syllogisms: its basic hypothesis is so powerful, obvious, irresistible, that we don't need ask for its concession, nor even say it. |
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| When I say dictator, I'm not using a reductio ad absurdum argument. |
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| So Yung Joc's set doubled as an elegant reductio ad absurdum. |
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| Such a consequence will constitute the key step in a proof by reductio ad absurdum, a proof that will culminate in a type of contraposition, turning on modus tollens. |
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| That would push our own paper and our own credibility ad absurdum. |
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| This might seem like extrapolation ad absurdum, but it is actual fact. |
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| Burke imitated Bolingbroke's style and ideas in a reductio ad absurdum of his arguments for atheistic rationalism, demonstrating their absurdity. |
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| However, Abelard in his Dialectica made a reductio ad absurdum argument against the idea that the copula can express existence. |
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| Palermo practiced a reductio ad absurdum without quite becoming absurd. |
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