| 单词 | reduction to the absurd |
| 释义 | > as lemmasreduction to the absurd (also to absurdity) b. reduction to the absurd (also to absurdity): = reductio ad absurdum n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > absurdity, incongruity > [noun] > reduction to absurdity reduction to the absurd (also to absurdity)1712 reductio ad absurdum1730 the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical syllogism > logical argument > [noun] > types of logical argument > reduction to absurdity reductio ad impossibile1552 reduction to the absurd (also to absurdity)1712 apagogea1753 apagogy1847 1712 H. Ditton Disc. Resurrection Jesus ii. xxiv. 156 A Reduction to Absurdity, in some Proofs of the Moral Kind, is..more to be avoided. 1803 Cobbett's Ann. Reg. 2 Suppl. 1369 The reduction to the absurd is a good demonstration in geometry; it is equally good in history. 1856 C. M. Yonge Daisy Chain ii. xv. 506 [The Doctor] had a courteous clever process of the reduction to the absurd, which seldom failed to tell. 1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 26 May 1/2 Such reductions to absurdity of the universal eight hours day are..less necessary now. 1913 B. Matthews Shakspere as Playwright ii. 16 This astounding assertion..is only the reduction to the absurd of an opinion hinted at by Johnson in the eighteenth century and held by Lamb in the nineteenth. 1963 R. G. de Bray tr. A. Reymond Hist. Sci. Greco-Roman Antiq. i. i. 60 On these foundations he [sc. Eudoxus] established the basis of the method of exhaustion,..which has for its complement the reduction to absurdity. 2003 F. E. Peters Monotheists II. x. 344 The intent was probably to demolish belief in the Afterlife by a legal reduction to the absurd, but Jesus takes the question seriously and gives a serious answer. < as lemmas |
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