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Reductio ad absurdum
Meaning
Noun
●
In Logic & Mathematics:
The method of
disproving
a
statement
by
assuming
the
statement
is
true
and, with that
assumption
,
arriving at
a
blatant
contradiction.
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Synonyms
Apagoge
Proof By Contradiction
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