Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun 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.
  • noun In mathematics, a progress or passage from one proposition to another, when the first, having been demonstrated, is employed in proving the next.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Logic) An indirect argument which proves a thing by showing the impossibility or absurdity of the contrary.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun logic An indirect argument which proves a thing by showing the impossibility or absurdity of the contrary.

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  • Yippee, a which see!

    January 19, 2014

  • Etymology appears to be for anxiety, not apagoge.

    January 20, 2014

  • Thanks bilby! Fixed.

    January 20, 2014

  • Yippie-ky-ya-ky-ouwe!

    January 21, 2014

  • the yb of alpha omega!

    January 21, 2014

  • When Heaven and her occupants; they care for us no more

    And Life and Love are washed away like sands upon the shore

    When the soulless, heartless demons love you more than I do, then

    The earth will quake as God forsake and then my love will end.

    January 28, 2015