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Pretty much by definition, this is an almost-automatic way to win MDDOTW awards one of the penalties for employing what is officially known as the Reductio ad Hilterum fallacy, so we hereby retrospectively declare that Steve Cohen was last week's Most Disappointing Democrat Of The Week.
Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [153] -- SOTU-palooza Chris Weigant 2011
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Pretty much by definition, this is an almost-automatic way to win MDDOTW awards one of the penalties for employing what is officially known as the Reductio ad Hilterum fallacy, so we hereby retrospectively declare that Steve Cohen was last week's Most Disappointing Democrat Of The Week.
Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [153] -- SOTU-palooza Chris Weigant 2011
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Dave: To invoke Hitler would have been to commit the fallacy error of debate called Reductio ad Hitlerum as defined by Godwin's Law.
the oberg days of march. daveberta 2006
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Reductio ad absurdum is straightforwardly translatable to уменьшение до глупости in Russian, for example.
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Amy, you're employing a Dicto Secundum Quid ad Dictum Simpliciter, a Reductio ad Absurdum, with a False Equivalency argument as well as both a Petitio Principii and an Argumentum ad Hominem, all in just a few short lines.
TEXAS FAITH: Tim Tebow's Super Bowl advertisement | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2010
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Reductio ad absurdum is straightforwardly translatable to уменьшение до глупости in Russian, for example.
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The movie actually stoops to an Reductio ad Hitlerum.
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The movie actually stoops to an Reductio ad Hitlerum.
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Because those entitlements are mathematically unsustainable, the entitlement infrastructure given birth by FDR, extended by LBJ and finished by BHO in a Reductio ad absurdum Latin: “reduction to the absurd” of excess shall collapse.
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Because Malcolm takes the politically correct conventional wisdom (you can't make useful predictions about people, heredity doesn't matter, just environment and effort, etcetera etcetera) seriously enough to apply it in all sorts of situations where a more prudent hack would shy away, making him the a One-Man Reductio ad Absurdum of fashionable thought.
Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege 2009
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