| With the tighter provisions envisaged here, I see a risk that the report's intention, namely to simplify, will be pursued ad absurdum. |
| The argument that says no individual has power leads to a reductio ad absurdum. |
| This is at the same time a difference with the ordinary hypothetical syllogism: insincerity essentially colors the reductio ad absurdum. |
| It's an entertaining reductio ad absurdum against those who complain about the unfairness of low-cost production by foreigners. |
| Now, with her mother dead, she ascends into a reductio ad absurdum of the celebrity culture. |
| The French geometer, Legendre, gave a rigorous proof by reductio ad absurdum. |
