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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
Vocabulary

Reductio ad absurdum

I couldn't make out the exact meaning of the phrase 'Reductio ad absurdum' when I read it in some of Bertrand Russell's books. Can somebody help me?

Thanks in anticipation

Jagan
  

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htm , where you would have been able to read: Reductio ad absurdum is a mode of argumentation that seeks to establish a contention by deriving an absurdity from its denial, thus arguing that a thesis must be accepted because its rejection would be untenable. It is a style of reasoning that has been employed throughout the history of mathematics and philosophy from classical antiquity onwards. )

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  • htm , where you would have been able to read: Reductio ad absurdum is a mode of argumentation that seeks to establish a contention by deriving an absurdity from its denial, thus arguing that a thesis must be accepted because its rejection would be untenable.
  • It is a style of reasoning that has been employed throughout the history of mathematics and philosophy from classical antiquity onwards.
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Your friend Google would have been helpful to you here, calling up sites such as this one, http://www.iep.utm.edu/r/reductio.htm , where you would have been able to read:

Reductio ad absurdum is a mode of argumentation that seeks to establish a cont
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