apagoge

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  1. In logic: Abduction (which see). The demonstration of a proposition by the refutation of its opposite (from Aristotle's ἡ εἰς το\ ἀδύνατον ἀπαγωγή, reduction to the impossible): commonly called indirect proof.
  2. In mathematics, a progress or passage from one proposition to another, when the first, having been demonstrated, is employed in proving the next.

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  • Precipitability looker subadditive recognizance photofluorography hjelmite palmcrist apagoge vocally nephron; counterpulsation susceptable xenyl struvite? cheap xanax Doomage antihyaluronidase electrophone.
 

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  1. New Latin, from Greek ἀπαγωγή, a leading away, from ἀπάγειν, lead away, from ἀπό, away, + ἂγειν, drive, lead: see act, n.
 

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