reductio ad absurdum
noun/rɪˌdʌktiəʊ æd æbˈsɜːdəm/
/rɪˌdʌktiəʊ æd æbˈsɜːrdəm/
[uncountable, countable] (from Latin, philosophy)- a method of proving that something is not true by showing that its result is not logical or sensibleWord OriginLatin, literally ‘reduction to the absurd’.
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