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How to use absurdum in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word absurdum? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
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.
Opposition to stem-cell research is the reductio ad absurdum of the right-to-life argument.
It's an entertaining reductio ad absurdum against those who complain about the unfairness of low-cost production by foreigners.
Acceptance of originalism, it is charged, would necessitate the reversal of crucially important landmark decisions and thereby provides a reduction ad absurdum of originalism.
It would be only fitting, the reductio ad absurdum of our divided age, for this election to take two extra months.
One use of modus tollens is the reductio ad absurdum argument, i.e. showing that a premise is false by demonstrating that it implies an absurd conclusion.
As symbol, Phelps was the reductio ad absurdum of many conservative beliefs.
However, Abelard in his Dialectica made a reductio ad absurdum argument against the idea that the copula can express existence.
Burke imitated Bolingbroke's style and ideas in a reductio ad absurdum of his arguments for atheistic rationalism, demonstrating their absurdity.
Palermo practiced a reductio ad absurdum without quite becoming absurd.
Examples from Classical Literature
And so Gersonides proceeds to demolish Maimonides's position by reducing it ad absurdum.
Is not that a reductio ad absurdum for this system of pure and direct democracy?
The French geometer, Legendre, gave a rigorous proof by reductio ad absurdum.
This conclusion was, in the view of the legalist, a reductio ad absurdum of Paulinism.
The method of exhaustion used, for the purpose of proof by reductio ad absurdum, the lemma proved in Eucl.
If this be not a reductio ad absurdum, we do not know what is.
It is not only wrong, it is capable of a reductio ad absurdum.
I do not hesitate a moment to say it is a reductio ad absurdum.
It's the principle of the reductio ad absurdum, if you know what that is.
Housewife in fact she was in excelsis, not to say ad absurdum.
This sort of argument might of course be met by a reductio ad absurdum.
And now the inevitable reductio ad absurdum has been reached with both clubs shut up.
And we may very easily see this process carried to its ultimate reductio ad absurdum in the next twenty years.
Really, today's LGBT activists, along with their sycophantic allies signify the embodiment of reductio ad absurdum.
For Osborne, this reductio ad absurdum seemed so conclusive that there was no need to justify his controversial economic beliefs.
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