In logic, reductio ad absurdum (Latin for "reduction to absurdity"), also known as argumentum ad absurdum (Latin for "argument to absurdity") or apagogical...

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")....

needed] Appeal to the stone shares similarities in structure to reductio ad absurdum (Latin for “reduction to absurdity”) which states that an argument's...

As Ballentine recounts, Wigner regarded his 1961 argument as a reductio ad absurdum, indicating that the postulates of quantum mechanics need to be revised...

reaching a false conclusion, called an "absurdity" (argument by reductio ad absurdum). Plato describes himself as not using absurd argumentation against...

Last Thursday or Last Thursdayism is a philosophical claim of the reductio ad absurdum type, challenging creationism. According to this claim, the age of...

\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...

did. Physicists use the Boltzmann brain thought experiment as a reductio ad absurdum argument for evaluating competing scientific theories. In contrast...

superiority, deformity, and incongruity. Reductio ad absurdum is a valid method of argument, while reductio ad ridiculum is invalid. Argument by invective...

In mathematics, a Gödel numbering for sequences provides an effective way to represent each finite sequence of natural numbers as a single natural number...

Earth and broke apart a giant landmass into many different pieces. Reductio ad absurdum Straw man (a similar fallacy) Moore, Brooke Noel (2015). Critical...

statement that runs contrary to one's expectation Self-refuting idea or reductio ad absurdum, idea or statement whose falsehood is a logical consequence of the...

based on the belief that the universe is irrational and meaningless Reductio ad absurdum, a type of logical argument This disambiguation page lists articles...

thermodynamic paradox, Clausius' paradox, and Kelvin's paradox, is a reductio ad absurdum argument that uses thermodynamics to show the impossibility of an...

of transposition".) ✸2.18 (~p → p) → p (Called "The complement of reductio ad absurdum. It states that a proposition which follows from the hypothesis of...

by modus ponens, modus tollens, conditional proof, and classical reductio ad absurdum.[citation needed] Material implication is used in all the basic systems...

anything follows from a contradiction. The law is employed in a reductio ad absurdum proof. To express the fact that the law is tenseless and to avoid...

biological neurons or digital hardware. The "fading qualia" is a reductio ad absurdum thought experiment. It involves replacing, one by one, the neurons...

noncontradiction Proof by exhaustion Proof by infinite descent Modus tollens Reductio ad absurdum Bishop, Errett 1967. Foundations of Constructive Analysis, New York:...

a philosophical 'fellow traveler'. "Reduction" arguments such as reductio ad absurdum argument (or proof by contradiction) have been traced to him, as...

Northern England Reductionism, a range of philosophical systems Reductio ad absurdum, a form of argument in which a proposition is disproven by following...

that quantum suicide as a whole might be characterized as a sort of reductio ad absurdum against the current understanding of both the many-worlds interpretation...

exhaustion typically required a form of proof by contradiction, known as reductio ad absurdum. This amounts to finding an area of a region by first comparing it...

Retrieved 5 August 2024. Potter, David S. (2014). The Roman Empire at Bay, AD 180–395. Routledge. p. 77. ISBN 9781134694778. An explanation of Livy's usage...

adult, then the homunculus may have sperm of its own. This led to a reductio ad absurdum with a chain of homunculi "all the way down", an idea also known...

typically including disjunctive syllogism, disjunction introduction, and reductio ad absurdum. The metamathematical value of the principle of explosion is that...

thinking (Silentio mentions Greek philosophy and Hegel) leads to the reductio ad absurdum conclusion that (a) there must be something that transcends this...

showing how various essentialist ideas have absurd conclusions through reductio ad absurdum arguments (known as prasanga in Sanskrit). Chapter 15 of Nāgārjuna's...

opposing views about reality, he wrote a series of paradoxes that used reductio ad absurdum arguments, or arguments that disprove an idea by showing how it leads...

with the aim of disproving the existence of God, but rather as a reductio ad absurdum of the well-known argument from design (which suggests that living...