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‖ apagoge|æpəˈgəʊdʒiː|
[Gr. ἀπαγωγή leading away, abduction, also used by Aristotle in the logical sense, f. ἀπ-άγειν to lead off.]
†1. Logic. The species of syllogism, or syllogistic reasoning, called abduction. Obs.
1727–51Chambers Cycl., Abduction in logic, a kind of argumentation by the Greeks called Apagoge. 1872Grote Aristotle I. vi. 290 Another variety of ratiocinative procedure, which he calls Apagoge or Abduction.
2. A demonstration which does not prove a thing directly, but shows the absurdity or impossibility of denying it; a reductio ad absurdum.
a1753Berkeley is cited in Worcester.
†3. Math. ‘A progress or passage from one proposition to another, when the first having been once demonstrated, is afterwards employed to the proving of others.’ Chambers Cycl. Supp. 1753. Obs. |