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Definition of reductio ad absurdum noun from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

reductio ad absurdum

noun

NAmE//rɪˌdʌktioʊ æd əbˈsərdəm//

[uncountable, countable] (philosophy) (from Latin)

a method of proving that something is not true by showing that its result is not logical or sensible

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