| 单词 | reductio ad absurdum |
| 例句 | They indulge as well in reductio ad absurdum, the logical practice of taking any premise to an extreme, and in various sorts of combinatorial word play. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But the reductio ad absurdum plot and dialogue make it a tough ride for anyone hoping for a bit of bona fide cultural illumination to go with their entertainment. 'Motown' is music to the ears, but the message is missing 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z DJ Khaled’s best moments are a sort of reductio ad absurdum of hip-hop maximalism, consensus songs with consensus ideas: “All I Do Is Win,” “I’m So Hood,” “I’m on One.” Review: DJ Khaled and the Game, Nodding to Olden Times 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z It was, alas, a reductio ad absurdum of the entire gala. American Ballet Theater Celebrates 70th With Gala 2010-05-18T17:04:00Z The Mail, as ever, took the reductio ad absurdum approach, focusing only on the most outre and avant-garde collections and ignoring everything else. Do men really care about fashion? 2013-01-12T18:00:01Z It is a kind of detective fiction, the kind that drives some readers crazy: but it also is a reductio ad absurdum of the act of reading itself. Sarah Churchwell: rereading The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner 2012-07-20T21:55:05Z Except that kind of reductio ad absurdum doesn’t excuse 99.99% of the identical, fundamental bullcrap that most people lament about: their health, jobs and relationships. How Can I Get What I Want in Life? 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z It is a reductio ad absurdum argument, because Hollywood’s belief in the power of the individual is driven by narrative imperative, not ideology. The Giver: conservative parable or a Hollywood film like any other? 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z It’s a sort of forensic reductio ad absurdum, a cinematic experiment in social science. Kitty Genovese’s Brother Reëxamines Her Famous Murder 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z It’s the reductio ad absurdum of Neumann’s “capitalist kibbutz”: Everyone is deserving of “growth,” but some are apparently more deserving than others. ‘Billion Dollar Loser’ Recounts WeWork’s Big Dreams and Its Harsh Wake-Up Call 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z Collectively, they embody the reductio ad absurdum of a concept that everybody is a star. Review: ‘Mascots’ Suffers From Mockumentary Fatigue Syndrome 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z He seems to have viewed superdeterminism as a reductio ad absurdum proposition, which highlights the strangeness of quantum mechanics. Does Quantum Mechanics Rule Out Free Will? 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z Ross provides a reductio ad absurdum for a quiet digital-age truth: A sprinkling of coveted intellectual property can allow a shrewd company to punch well above its weight. How the long-dead public-television painter Bob Ross became a streaming phenomenon (and kicked up plenty of dirt in the process) 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox—a thought experiment which aimed to demonstrate that the classical concept of locality must be preserved through “reductio ad absurdum,” was proven wrong by subsequent experiments. The Power of Scientific Brainstorming 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z “That’s really not an exaggeration of Mary Daly’s actual opinion, it’s only a reductio ad absurdum but not actually an exaggeration.” Stephin Merritt of the Magnetic Fields: 'I used to live in a commune where music was forbidden' 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z Reviewing it in the Guardian, Toby Young called it “the reductio ad absurdum of this whole self-obsessed genre: it’s a confessional memoir by someone who has nothing to confess.” Elizabeth Wurtzel, journalist and author of Prozac Nation, dead at 52 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z In mathematics, this is called a reductio ad absurdum—a reduction to the absurd—and it proves that at least one assumption, usually a subtle one that is taken for granted, must be wrong. Rethinking National Security 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z This is the reductio ad absurdum of a generation who thought that being spiritual but not religious was a sustainable thing. Is it time to give the overworked one-minute’s silence a rest? | Giles Fraser 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z There is an element of reductio ad absurdum about the anti-passive arguments. Criticism of index-tracking funds is ill-directed 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z “Is that not the instant reductio ad absurdum of the gender extremists’ claims? Joshua Sutcliffe, British teacher, faces disciplinary action for ‘misgendering’ student 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z Consider the logic of her reductio ad absurdum conclusion. Gun Control After Las Vegas 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z But the Hillary Clinton campaign was its reductio ad absurdum : all segmented group appeal, no message. For Democrats, the road back 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z So we come to last month’s reductio ad absurdum. ObamaCare Death Spiral Update 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z Last night’s tragedy was also the grotesque reductio ad absurdum of the claim that it takes a good guy with a gun to stop a bad guy with a gun. The Horrific, Predictable Result of a Widely Armed Citizenry 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z It also suggests the reductio ad absurdum of the populist moment. Icelandic comedian Jón Gnarr's 'The Mayor' is like 'Veep,' only with a real-life politician 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z Then again, it isn’t quite the reductio ad absurdum. The Old—Heave-Ho 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z But its reductio ad absurdum was the Obama doctrine of self-sacrificial subordination of U.S. interests to universal values. For Democrats, the road back 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z He created what he thought of as a reductio ad absurdum. Is Science Kind of a Scam? 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z Rather, he was tweaking the government with a reductio ad absurdum. John Roberts's anti-immigrant hypothetical was just legal wordplay | Scott Lemieux 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z To illustrate, consider the reductio ad absurdum: If one could simply swap the entire population of a housing project with that of an equivalent-sized middle-class neighborhood, the latter would cease to be a middle-class neighborhood. Moving Up? 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z Using a variant of the classic reductio ad absurdum strategy, critiques of bimodal IT characterize it as a path to bipolarIT, a separate, but unequal partitioning. Bimodal IT Doesn't Mean Bipolar Organizations: The Path to IT Transformation 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z Except that kind of reductio ad absurdum doesn’t excuse 99.99% of the identical, fundamental ridiculousness that most people lament about: their health, jobs and relationships. How to Get What You Want 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z What started out as a reductio ad absurdum became proof that the cosmos is in certain ways absurd. Is Science Kind of a Scam? 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z Let’s start with his second point first and use the great economist Frederic Bastiat’s technique of “reductio ad absurdum,” that is showing the flaws in an argument by taking it to its logical absurd conclusion. The President's Minimum Wage Proposal 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Williams may be a test case: “genius” or “reductio ad absurdum?” Boswell: Right on schedule, new Manager Matt Williams opens Nationals spring training just as he planned 2014-02-16T02:02:13Z Crossman in the Guardian thought his report was a "reductio ad absurdum of commercialism applied to a public service". Asking business to reshape public services is not always mistaken 2013-02-23T09:00:28Z This reductio ad absurdum required the collusion of private interests along with policymakers in government and central banking. Economics, politics and financial markets: Big issues 2012-08-10T09:12:30Z Appears afterwards that the 'Review' contains final and satisfying reductio ad absurdum of my theory. Aspects of Modern Oxford 2012-04-25T02:01:12.193Z Denying negative consequences altogether, as the President did this morning, leaves proponents of a higher minimum wage vulnerable to reductio ad absurdum. The President's Minimum Wage Proposal 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z It was, as mathematicians say, a reductio ad absurdum. The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel 2012-04-08T02:00:20.427Z This, says Dr. Carpenter, is a complete reductio ad absurdum. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z They were the reductio ad absurdum of the pioneer. Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington 2012-02-11T03:03:55.693Z Surely this makes the whole thing a reductio ad absurdum. The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage 2012-01-11T03:00:19.077Z Often a reductio ad absurdum shuts all the doors one after another, until only one is left through which we are therefore compelled to enter. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z Among the other proofs is that of the reductio ad absurdum, which the student might now meet, but which may better be postponed. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z A reference to the book will show at once that this paradox is simply used as an argument to enable the cardinal to prove his point by the common method of a reductio ad absurdum. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 90, July 19, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. 2011-10-03T02:00:27.757Z This is a reductio ad absurdum, but it shows the effect of having the greatest beam too far aft. Boating 2011-09-21T02:00:35.453Z The proof given consists in what is called a reductio ad absurdum, a kind of proof often used by Euclid, and principally in proving the converse of a previous theorem. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z Yet the process in which he was engaged reached out to limits beyond our power to scan, and his experience is in one point of view an heroic reductio ad absurdum. John Woolman's Journal 2011-09-06T02:00:09.260Z The phrase reductio ad absurdum seems likely to continue in spite of the efforts to find another one that is simpler. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z This reductio ad absurdum, of the hypothesis of supernumerary personality has revealed the real hysteric character of the phenomena. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z Mr. Lane’s fallacy was exploded by this reductio ad absurdum of his tenets, and regulation weights for coxswains were initiated for following years. Boating 2011-09-21T02:00:35.453Z This led Saccheri to attempt a reductio ad absurdum, in which he mistakenly believed himself to have succeeded. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z A reductio ad absurdum which attained serious attention, in spite of its patent jocoseness, appeared in an early number of the Dublin University Kottabos. Problems in Greek history 2011-06-09T02:00:18.427Z The French geometer, Legendre, gave a rigorous proof by reductio ad absurdum. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z It is cases like this with their reductio ad absurdum of the whole process that have quite discredited the belief in maternal impressions. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z But Castelvetro's method brings with it its own reductio ad absurdum. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z They prove elaborately, by a reductio ad absurdum, that the volumes cannot be unequal. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z Indeed, Weismann has been forced to that reductio ad absurdum in science, narrowly limited definitions, in order to maintain his position. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z It has the sanction of some of the most eminent mathematicians, and while not as satisfactory in some respects as the reductio ad absurdum, mentioned below, it is more satisfactory in most particulars. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z For war purposes, in face of modern artillery, it is a reductio ad absurdum. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z This, by reductio ad absurdum, destroys the affirmation of the immortality of the highest as well as the lowest. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z This “solipsism” is the ultimate logical issue of subjective idealism, and it is a sufficient reductio ad absurdum of the whole system. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z That the premises cannot be true if the conclusion is false, is the unexceptionable foundation of the legitimate mode of reasoning called a reductio ad absurdum. A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. II 2011-03-01T03:00:40.557Z Such a position is a reductio ad absurdum of the attempt to transcend the ultimate character of those intuitions and feelings which prompt men to benevolence. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z Indeed it would not be difficult to dispose of it by the method of reasoning familiarly known as a reductio ad absurdum. The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry 2011-02-26T03:00:51.130Z “Well, perhaps that is rather a reductio ad absurdum,” he answered. The Carleton Case 2011-01-24T03:00:17.240Z This is almost a reductio ad absurdum of Tennessee’s Partner, for Captain Jim’s friend, Lacy Bassett, is a coward, a liar, and an impostor. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Fisher's argument to show the passiveness of prices takes the form of a reductio ad absurdum. The Value of Money 2011-01-04T03:01:12.363Z So far, I wish it to be understood that I am arguing with the intent of establishing a reductio ad absurdum. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) 2010-12-27T03:00:17.990Z It has been urged, as a reductio ad absurdum of the view which would connect Beowulf with Virgil, that the relation to the Odyssey is more obvious than that to the �neid. Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn There is a manifest reductio ad absurdum attached to the notion that we can be deceived on such a point as this. An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent And so it would have done; but, unfortunately, I saw subtler possibilities of political satire in it, nothing less than a reductio ad absurdum of the whole system of Party Government. My First Book: the experiences of Walter Besant, James Payn, W. Clark Russell, Grant Allen, Hall Caine, George R. Sims, Rudyard Kipling, A. Conan Doyle, M.E. Braddon, F.W. Robinson, H. Rider Haggard, R.M. Ballantyne, I. Zangwill, Morley Roberts, David Christie Murray, Marie Corelli, Jerome K. Jerome, John Strange Winter, Bret Harte, "Q.", Robert Buchanan, Robert Louis Stevenson, with an introduction by Jerome K. Jerome. The reductio ad absurdum, at first blush, looks impressive. The Value of Money 2011-01-04T03:01:12.363Z From what has already been said, we would expect to find the frequent use of the dilemma, and the reductio ad absurdum—or, that the contrary of what is true leads to the absurd. Junius Unmasked or, Thomas Paine the author of the Letters of Junius and the Declaration of Independence There is the ridicule of the reductio ad absurdum. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) The strongest proof I have for my inevitable mortality is the reductio ad absurdum. An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent After 1854, and for ten years, the political history of Canada is a reductio ad absurdum of the older party system. British Supremacy & Canadian Self-Government, 1839-1854 He brought into use the method of refuting error by the reductio ad absurdum. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition But the best answer—the reductio ad absurdum—of Mr. Arnold’s doctrine, is the mutilation which it has caused him to make of his own writings. English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century If your own handling of Holy Scripture,—your own method, by yourself applied,—be not a reductio ad absurdum, I know of nothing in the world which is.... Inspiration and Interpretation Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford New conclusions may be got as well from fictitious as from real inductions; and this is even consciously done, viz. in the reductio ad absurdum, in order to show the falsity of an assumption. Analysis of Mr. Mill's System of Logic It was a reductio ad absurdum of the eclectic principle of cabinet building. British Supremacy & Canadian Self-Government, 1839-1854 It is the reductio ad absurdum of the typical "Pollyanna" school of philosophy. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 What is the reductio ad absurdum but an appeal to admitted truths against plausible falsehoods? Comic Bible Sketches Reprinted from "The Freethinker" Euclid used it in his immortal Geometry; for what else is the reductio ad absurdum which he sometimes employs? Flowers of Freethought (First Series) Without, however, reverting to general principles, we may rely on an obvious reductio ad absurdum. Principles Of Political Economy Abridged with Critical, Bibliographical, and Explanatory Notes, and a Sketch of the History of Political Economy This supplies yet another reductio ad absurdum of the doctrine we are combating. Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I The argument was a splendid reductio ad absurdum, and resembles the old reason for the reluctance of the peasantry to eat potatoes, because no mention was made of them in Holy Writ. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland This reductio ad absurdum disproves the common idea of election. Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors There is no doctrine in Hinduism which has been carried to such a reductio ad absurdum. India, Its Life and Thought Pan-Germanism, as here seen, is the reductio ad absurdum of the doctrine that all is fair in war—and peace. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, September 30, 1914 These two are sufficient; for the corresponding propositions respecting unequals may be proved from these by a reductio ad absurdum. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive It is not at all likely that he would be frightened from his position by such a reductio ad absurdum. A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory McCulloch has not unfrequently exaggerated the half-truths of his doctrines to such an extent as to produce unwittingly a reductio ad absurdum. Principles Of Political Economy In his hands it was simply the "reductio ad absurdum" of opposing opinions as the means of sustaining the tenets of his own sect. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles This is what might be termed the reductio ad absurdum of prescribing merely for the disease by name, irrespective of symptomatology. Doctor Jones' Picnic That the premises can not be true if the conclusion is false, is the unexceptionable foundation of the legitimate mode of reasoning called reductio ad absurdum. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive Thus, by a reductio ad absurdum, he establishes the position that the will is not free, but fate rules all things. A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory He, indeed, subverts it indirectly by a reductio ad absurdum. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 An amusing application � which might pass for a reductio ad absurdum, � of this dense theory is put by Xenophon into the mouth of Socrates. The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory I shall write a reductio ad absurdum review on the Rev. Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities She has no system, unless it be a reductio ad absurdum, which only blunders on the right way after fruitlessly trying every other conceivable path. The Crack of Doom The wonder is, that when Edwards had carried out his logic to such a conclusion, he did not regard his argument as a perfect reductio ad absurdum. A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory It seems—let it be said with all respect—that we have reached the reductio ad absurdum, and that the constitutional argument in any of its phases need not be further pursued. Problems of Expansion As Considered In Papers and Addresses Admitting the logic, the argument may be read as a reductio ad absurdum in both cases. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill We are led to something like a reductio ad absurdum by such speculations, very vain yet always attractive as they are. Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets But it does not upset the physiological argument in so far as this constitutes merely a reductio ad absurdum of naïve realism. Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays This is the very reductio ad absurdum of representative government. The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 This I did and, taking Palladio’s magnificent scene at Vicenza, by a shameless process of reductio ad absurdum, evolved the scene that is now in use at Hammersmith. The Beggar's Opera to which is prefixed the Musick to each Song As anonymous, it could be ignored instead of answered; and probably such orthodox persons as read it assumed it to be a kind of reductio ad absurdum of the Utilitarian creed. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill I cannot well conceive a reductio ad absurdum more complete than this. Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions Which is the reductio ad absurdum of idealism. The Lost Girl "What I wish to show Mr. Norman," says Mr. G. K. Chesterton in The New Witness, "is that the fantastic pursuit of the idée fixe ... leads to a reductio ad absurdum." Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 3, 1916 If library facilities consist in rendering the books in it unfindable, and therefore unavailable to any reader, then the argument for free range of the shelves arrives at a reductio ad absurdum. A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries We care little for the old-fashioned whimsicality of the Odes, and little for such an inimitable farrago of vulgarisms, such a reductio ad absurdum of sentiment and style, as p. 168The Lost Child. Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation The method of exhaustion used, for the purpose of proof by reductio ad absurdum, the lemma proved in Eucl. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield This kind of reasoning is what we call reductio ad absurdum, for just the reverse of what he says is true. Sparkling Gems of Race Knowledge Worth Reading A compendium of valuable information and wise suggestions that will inspire noble effort at the hands of every race-loving man, woman, and child. One has often had occasion to notice the rapidity with which a young idée fixe will dart down a convenient reductio ad absurdum when closely pursued. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 3, 1916 Yes, it was really a reductio ad absurdum of our system. The Daughters of Danaus A reductio ad absurdum, proving the objection vain. The Confidence-Man Of course that was not a result in which it was possible for men to acquiesce for long, and historically speaking, the Eleatic doctrine must be regarded as a reductio ad absurdum of earlier speculation. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield It is the negation of that view which deems external forces alone sufficient, and at the same time the assertion of something positive, to be arrived at by the process of reductio ad absurdum. On the Genesis of Species Pharisaism is at once the logical consummation and the reductio ad absurdum of legalism. What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular Ironical writing of this kind is in substance a reductio ad absurdum. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) The practical reductio ad absurdum and consequent explosion will soon accomplish themselves. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 The method of reductio ad absurdum is a variety of analysis. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield Is not that a reductio ad absurdum for this system of pure and direct democracy? Ethics in Service This reductio ad absurdum of legalism is exactly paralleled, in many of our elementary schools, in the answers to arithmetical questions given by the children. What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular A logician, in popular estimation, seems to be one who never shrinks from a reductio ad absurdum. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) They illustrated the wrongfulness of the position by the reductio ad absurdum. Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 Musicians went forward with the madrigal till they found themselves in Vecchi's day confronted with a genuine reductio ad absurdum. Some Forerunners of Italian Opera We should rather describe it as a reductio ad absurdum in Natural Philosophy. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 Universal war is the reductio ad absurdum of false political theories and false moral ideals; and the reductio ad absurdum is the chief argument which Providence uses with mankind. Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers It is absolutely refuted by the double reductio ad absurdum shown above to be contained in it. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life He is to biology what the late Camille Flammarion was to astronomy, which is to say, its court jester and reductio ad absurdum. Damn! A Book of Calumny That Hobbes's conclusion was only the reductio ad absurdum of the Reformation doctrine was hidden from the Reformers themselves by their very strong belief in an absolute and ascertainable religious truth. The Age of the Reformation A reasoner, apart from mere slips, only involves himself in a contradiction when he is shying at a reductio ad absurdum. The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 And Conscription is the reductio ad absurdum of your dream of Constitutional Law. The Victim A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis What is the logical foundation of the indirect method or reductio ad absurdum? Logic Deductive and Inductive Like all ladies who attempt to argue, you rush into the reductio ad absurdum, and find it impossible to discriminate between——" "Wisdom and conceit? Infelice It is the reductio ad absurdum of the idea of aristocratic society. The Land of Contrasts A Briton's View of His American Kin But to argue this question would be a reductio ad absurdum. Saratoga and How to See It When a body of religionists come together upon certain tenets, it would be a reductio ad absurdum for any of its ministers to be occupied in denying and controverting these tenets. Practical Essays The single point on which Spencer and Gillen rely is sufficiently refuted by a single reductio ad absurdum. Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia This is, in fact, called reductio ad absurdum. Public Speaking It's the principle of the reductio ad absurdum, if you know what that is. Sally Bishop A Romance Which is a complete reductio ad absurdum of the philosophic opinion. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science But consider the legitimate _reductio ad absurdum_ of an ember raked from a fire 1000 years ago. The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays Plausibly implying as it does, that a system of complete laissez-faire is the logical outcome of the doctrines set forth, it seems to furnish a disproof of them by reductio ad absurdum. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library The reductio ad absurdum is surely reached in the case of the Commander-in-Chief and the Chief of the Staff. Indian Unrest His pictures look like a visible reductio ad absurdum of it all. Essays on Art But the method which proposes to give children an education along the lines of least resistance is, like all other naturalism, a contradiction in terms, sometimes a reductio ad absurdum, sometimes ad nauseam. Preaching and Paganism The execution of this task of the rationalising of the narratives by one Dr. Paulus, was the reductio ad absurdum of the claim. An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant But his letter is an admirable reductio ad absurdum of a certain line of thought. The Economic Consequences of the Peace The conception lands us in a reductio ad absurdum. The Law and the Word Whatever impressiveness belonged to MacPherson's cadenced prose was lost in these metrical versions, which furnish a perfect reductio ad absurdum of the critical folly that compared Ossian with Homer. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century This would be a stupendous program, even if complete in itself; as an item in a program it becomes almost a reductio ad absurdum. Preaching and Paganism The reductio ad absurdum of his arguments is not left to the reader to make; it is innocently provided by the preacher. Outspoken Essays Another insists that it is meant to be an ironical reductio ad absurdum of the theory of self-interest, by exhibiting a concrete example of its working in all its grossness. Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) So we are landed in a reductio ad absurdum which leaves no alternative but to predicate the Eternal Existence of an All-Originating Living Spirit. The Law and the Word The figures of to-day constitute the reductio ad absurdum of the Union. The Framework of Home Rule Moral:—The clear analysis of stump-oratory generally takes the form of a reductio ad absurdum. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, June 18, 1892 The reductio ad absurdum is not of Nature, but of selfish individualism, which suffers shipwreck alike in objective and in subjective religion. Christian Mysticism But beneath these arguments, which rise Alp on Alp, there lurked a quiet perception of humor, and the reductio ad absurdum, which he occasionally drives home, showed the keenness of Puritan wit. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862 "When you analyze anything in life," said he, "don't you think that you always come down to a reductio ad absurdum?" Septimus It is the reductio ad absurdum of the Union. The Framework of Home Rule "A reductio ad absurdum, my young friend," said the lawyer sternly; "the real purpose of eating will remain for ever unchanged." Romance Island The world-ruling papal polity, with its incomparable army of officials, bound to poverty and celibacy, and therefore invulnerable, was a reductio ad absurdum of its world-renouncing doctrines, which Europe was not likely to forget. Christian Mysticism The passage in the Herald was given as a paraphrase, or, rather, as a kind of reductio ad absurdum of one of Ferrier's last speeches in the House. The Testing of Diana Mallory Is not such an alternative so extravagant as to be a complete reductio ad absurdum? The Christian Life Its Course, Its Hindrances, And Its Helps The Statue and the Bust is frankly a reductio ad absurdum, and ends with a query. Emerson and Other Essays It rests with the audience to take the whole as pure extravaganza, or as a reductio ad absurdum or playful defense of the conception underlying the original idea. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 Those Lectures wonderfully anticipated the changing phases of the materialistic infidelity developed since his day, and applied to them the reductio ad absurdum with relentless and resistless power. California Sketches, Second Series "Which," replied Wilson, "may be regarded as a reductio ad absurdum of your view." The Meaning of Good—A Dialogue Bibliolatry is pushed to a reductio ad absurdum in these pagan worships of their Sacred Books. The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible If we take the latter reductio ad absurdum first, we find a good example of it in Lotze's well-known proof of monism from the fact of interaction between finite things. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy This sort of argument might of course be met by a reductio ad absurdum. Human Nature in Politics Third Edition This is what logicians call a reductio ad absurdum: an attempt to prove our principle unsound by showing that, fairly carried out, it leads to an absurdity. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 4 of 4 The dullard and the doctrinaire, the tedious people who carry out their principles to the bitter end of action, to the reductio ad absurdum of practice. Intentions But, apart from transcendentalism, there never probably lived a person who was in herself more completely a reductio ad absurdum of attempts to appraise a woman, even externally, by items of face and figure. The Woodlanders They form in short two unrelated universes,—which is the reductio ad absurdum required. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy Time, then, is the criterion of societies; thus looked at, history is the demonstration of the errors of humanity by the argument reductio ad absurdum. What is Property? It is not unlikely that she would have accepted any idea encased in this radiant formula—which was perhaps not a formula; it was the reductio ad absurdum of all formulas. The Beautiful and Damned The reductio ad horribile of all the fine arguments in favor of popular infallibility and virtue had come; neither was the reductio ad absurdum wanting. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859 From a materialistic stand-point this assumption of imperfectibility inevitably runs into the reductio ad absurdum. Life: Its True Genesis So that, in fact, the foundation is removed of the reductio ad absurdum attempted by the learned prelates. The Fallen Star, or, the History of a False Religion by E.L. Bulwer; And, A Dissertation on the Origin of Evil by Lord Brougham With him the reductio ad absurdum is a convincing argument. What is Property? We had syndicates, too, and finally we had the reductio ad absurdum—we had a federation of labor unions find a federation of syndicates, that divided the nation into two camps. A Traveler from Altruria: Romance Such is the reductio ad absurdum—the lawyers' argument, technically flawless, though proceeding upon a transparent fallacy. The Subterranean Brotherhood These mockers thought that Christ's being fastened to the Cross was a reductio ad absurdum of His claim to build the Temple. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark And in the piece, "Ah, are you digging on my grave?" pessimism approaches a reductio ad absurdum. The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century Tennyson offers us Will Waterproof's Lyrical Monologue, a reductio ad absurdum of the claims of the bibulous bard. The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years Let us assume God is and use reductio ad absurdum, Taking away the rotten props, the posts That do not fit or hold, and let Him fall. Toward the Gulf But it represents a sort of reductio ad absurdum of thousands of lyrics which have been echoing over the post-war world. A Book of Old Ballads — Complete Consequently, as neither judge, nor clerk, nor litigating party, nor person accused, nor his witnesses understood it, it constantly happened that the case was a veritable reductio ad absurdum. Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman What a reductio ad absurdum of the Blasphemy Laws! Prisoner for Blasphemy The referendum is of precisely the same nature, but this already has become a reductio ad absurdum, and can hardly survive the discredit into which it has fallen. Towards the Great Peace It seeks to establish truth by refuting error through the reductio ad absurdum. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 01 The Old Pagan Civilizations To suppose, therefore, that the limitations of the law are an integral portion of the law itself is a reductio ad absurdum. The Creative Process in the Individual I have followed it up, and I find your theory a 'reductio ad absurdum.' A Beautiful Possibility It seeks to establish truth by refuting error by the reductio ad absurdum. The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. The personal wickedness of Alexander and his relatives was the climax of papal iniquity, the reductio ad absurdum of the claim of the Roman Pontiff to be the representative of Christ on earth. England under the Tudors In spite of this, I admit that you cannot fight a political battle on the principle of the reductio ad absurdum. The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography The method of refuting an argument by reductio ad absurdum consists of showing that the argument to be refuted, if true, proves not only the conclusion given, but also other conclusions which are manifestly absurd. Practical Argumentation Was this the reductio ad absurdum of my vision, and must it even as I sat there fade, dissolve, and vanish before my eyes? A Modern Utopia Much of the commentary contains sound advice, but it leads off into that reductio ad absurdum so characteristic of Russian thought. Essays on Russian Novelists Their letters and prefaces sounded like a satire upon his own attitude, a reductio ad absurdum of his claims to "genius". Love's Pilgrimage The costumes were of two sorts: one fantastic, supposed to represent the East, and the other a kind of reductio ad absurdum of fashionable garb. The Metropolis Well, if you apply any scientific test known to me, you will achieve a reductio ad absurdum. The Doctor's Dilemma Supposing, as a reductio ad absurdum, that some wealthy individual were to endow an institution in order that the members of it might count the number of threads in carpets. The Upton Letters It was the reductio ad absurdum of the reformed religion, when weak-kneed Catholics sheltered themselves from its pains and penalties under the fairly secure roof-tree of atheism. Studies from Court and Cloister: being essays, historical and literary dealing mainly with subjects relating to the XVIth and XVIIth centuries Both of these opposing propositions are shown to admit of demonstration with equal force, not directly, but by the methods of reductio ad absurdum. Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science If such a thing were needed as a reductio ad absurdum of the enforcement of contract, such a folly would do that for us.” News from Nowhere, or, an Epoch of Rest : being some chapters from a utopian romance But as these arguments are largely a reductio ad absurdum of other theories, among which that which I am advocating is not included, I cannot regard them as establishing their contention. The Analysis of Mind The Mensur is, in fact, the reductio ad absurdum of the duel; and if the Germans themselves cannot see that it is funny, one can only regret their lack of humour. Three Men on the Bummel If this be not a reductio ad absurdum, we do not know what is. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 The first imaginative account of the land ironclad that was ever written concluded with the words, "They are the reductio ad absurdum of war." War and the future: Italy, France and Britain at war He is only indignant at the 'reductio ad absurdum' devised by Socrates for his 'homo mensura,' which Theodorus also considers to be 'really too bad.' Theaetetus It seems to be an exposition or rather a 'reductio ad absurdum' of the Megarian philosophy, but we are too imperfectly acquainted with this last to speak with confidence about it. Parmenides At first we are only struck with the broad humour of this 'reductio ad absurdum:' gradually we perceive that some important questions begin to emerge. Euthydemus This is implied in the reductio ad absurdum that 'justice is a thief,' and in the dissatisfaction which Socrates expresses at the final result. The Republic When the reason alleged for ranking the symphony above the oratorio leads us likewise to rank the sonata above the symphony, we seem to have reached a reductio ad absurdum. The Unseen World and Other Essays Is not this a "reductio ad absurdum" of the hypothesis that knowledge is sensible perception? Theaetetus The correlation of Ideas was the metaphysical difficulty of the age in which he lived; and the Megarian and Cynic philosophy was a 'reductio ad absurdum' of their isolation. Parmenides A literal application of her theory toman today is enough to bring it to a reductio ad absurdum. In Defense of Women However, since this leads us to a reductio ad absurdum, we must, of course, reject the explanation which has been offered by the Freudian school. The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 Parliament, oblivious of Heavenly Law, will find itself in hopeless reductio ad absurdum in regard to innumerable other questions,—in regard to all questions whatsoever by and by. Latter-Day Pamphlets |
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