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GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (called also
reductio ad absurdum ), in which the correct conclusion is an inference from the demonstration that any other hypothesis must be incorrect. - adj. a mode of demonstration in which proof is given by showing that any other supposition involves an absurdity (
reductio ad absurdum ), or an impossibility; thus, one quantity may be proved equal to another by showing that it can be neither greater nor less.
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“He believed in "implicit" logic, varied and converging proofs, indirect demonstration (ex impossibili or ex absurdo); assent, in short, in not a mechanical echo of the syllogism but a vital act, distinct and determined.”
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