Is not that a reductio ad absurdum for this system of pure and direct democracy? |
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. |
Also, employing reductio ad absurdum to show the rigor of syllogistical uses, is a recognition that it's exterior and prior to the syllogism. |
This seems to be a reductio ad absurdum of the complex and sometimes paradoxical workings of the law of cause and effect. |
Now, with her mother dead, she ascends into a reductio ad absurdum of the celebrity culture. |