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- Latin · borrowed fromreductiō ad absurdum
- English todayreductio ad absurdum
Unadapted borrowing from Latin reductiō ad absurdum.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
reductio ad absurdum
Today it means: The method of disproving a statement by assuming the statement is true and, with that assumption, arriving at a blatant contradiction. Full definition →
Latin reductiō ad absurdum