单词	reductio ad absurdum
释义	reductio ad absurdum /rɪˌdʌktɪəʊ ad abˈsəːdəm / noun Philosophy A method of proving the falsity of a premise by showing that its logical consequence is absurd or contradictory: the argument is a reductio ad absurdum of utilitarianism... Opposition to stem-cell research is the reductio ad absurdum of the right-to-life argument. The argument that says no individual has power leads to a reductio ad absurdum. For some reason, this strikes me as the reductio ad absurdum of the whole project. Origin Latin, literally 'reduction to the absurd'.
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