10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «REDUCTIO AD ABSURDUM»
Discover the use of
reductio ad absurdum in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
reductio ad absurdum and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Ken Vallario. FIVE CONSIDERATIONS FOR THE 215T CENTURY PHILOSOPI-
IER SAGE BY KEN VALLARIO Reductio Ad Absurdum Five Considerations for
the 21st Century PhilosopherSage. REDUCTIO AD ABSURDUM Front Cover.
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How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method
Yet it would be foolish to repudiate “reductio ad absurdum" as a tool of discovery.
It may present itself naturally and bring a decision when all other means seem to
be exhausted as the foregoing examples may show. We need some experience ...
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Fallacies and Judgments of Reasonableness: Empirical ...
Table 7.4 Average reasonableness score for 3 types of reasonable
argumentations: reductio ad absurdum, pragmatic argumentation and non-
pragmatic argumentation, and for 2 types of fallacies: argumentum ad
consequentiam (in the ...
Frans H. van Eemeren, Bart Garssen, Bert Meuffels, 2009
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Bayesian Argumentation: The practical side of probability
Section 2 reviews the argument by reductio ad absurdum in deductive logic
where we make use of a hypothesis in the process of refuting it. Section 3
extends this reasoning pattern to probabilistic reasoning and proposes the
principle of ...
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Rereading Aphra Behn: History, Theory, and Criticism
81) The reductio ad absurdum of like representing like is the commonwealth in
which everyone is a king. It is within this comically literalist system of
representation that Bellmour is imagined to have had his neck broken for slitting
the throat of a ...
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Cengage Advantage Books: Understanding Arguments: An ...
339 A reductio ad absurdum is deep only if it reveals that a claim implies an
absurd result that cannot be avoided without modifying the claim in essential
respects or giving it up entirely. In sum, then, a reductio ad absurdum argument
tries to ...
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Robert Fogelin, 2014
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A Workbook for Arguments: A Complete Course in Critical Thinking
Part V ofhis Dialogues, Hume also suggested a reductio ad absurdum ofthe
analogy.1 Developed, it goes something like this: Suppose the world has a
Creator like a house does. Now, when houses are not perfect, we know who to
blame: the ...
David R. Morrow, Anthony Weston, 2011
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No Free Lunch: Why Specified Complexity Cannot Be Purchased ...
This method for eliminating hypotheses is known as reductio ad absurdum and is
a staple of logicians and mathematicians.3 The success of reductio ad absurdum
depends on being able to demonstrate contradictions, which are defined as ...
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Trials of Reason : Plato and the Crafting of Philosophy: ...
Reductio is typically used to refer to reductio ad absurdum. But there are other
kinds of reductiones: reductio ad impossibile, ad falsum, ad ridiculum, and ad
incom- modum. In fact, the phrase reductio ad absurdum is sometimes liberally
used ...
David Wolfsdorf Assistant Professor of Philosophy Temple University, 2007
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Infinite Regress Arguments
Whenever we attempt to refute or reject a statement by logically deriving from it
either a false or unacceptable statement, or an unacceptable consequence, we
are presenting a reductio ad absurdum argument. We have seen in the example
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10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «REDUCTIO AD ABSURDUM»
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reductio ad absurdum is used in the context of the following news items.
A Grab Bag of Reductio ad Absurdum
A few items from the “Laughter is the Best Medicine File” on this grim day. First, green joints but brown energy? A friend of mine who lives in a Midwestern state ... «Power Line, Jul 15»
Jenner and Dolezal: Living La Vita Trovato
This is precisely what some of us had kicked around as a reductio ad absurdum of the Jenner case. If Bruce Jenner can declare he's a woman, what would ... «The Federalist, Jun 15»
Black Like Her
The example was meant as a reductio ad absurdum—but, less than a week later, Rachel Dolezal, the president of the Spokane, Washington, chapter of the ... «The New Yorker, Jun 15»
'Reductio ad Absurdum Land Speed Record'
Archives · Bio. 'Reductio ad Absurdum Land Speed Record'. by Ed Driscoll. June 13, 2015 - 12:08 am. (0). Email. Print. Decrease Font Size Increase Font Size. «PJ Media, Jun 15»
Yorgos Lanthimos' absurdist dystopia is the best of Cannes so far
11:31 a.m. Reductio ad absurdum as dystopia: In the world of Yorgos Lanthimos' The Lobster (Grade: B+), single adults are required to find a partner within 45 ... «A.V. Club Denver/Boulder, May 15»
Inside Amy Schumer Review: "Cool With It"
The signature comic gesture of Inside Amy Schumer has always been the reductio ad absurdum. Please forgive me for using a pedantic Latin phrase that I can ... «Paste Magazine, Apr 15»
No One Compared Charlie Hebdo to the Nazis, and It's a Logical Sin …
Person B, to disprove Person A's principle, has simply used a basic instrument of logical reasoning known as “reductio ad absurdum”: “a mode of argumentation ... «The Intercept - First Look Media, Apr 15»
The Future of Identity Politics
As a child I saw an ad for movie — which I never watched — titled “Japanese ... by the American kaleidoscope of identities into a kind of reductio ad absurdum. «PJ Media, Apr 15»
The Rise of the Ironic Man-Hater
Ironic misandry is “a reductio ad absurdum,” explains Jess Zimmerman, an editor at Medium and the proud owner of a “MALE TEARS” mug. (“I drink them to ... «Slate Magazine, Aug 14»
Man shot, paralyzed over unpaid parking tickets
I've sometimes made the reductio ad absurdum argument that we're closing in on the day where the police will start conducting SWAT raids over unpaid parking ... «Washington Post, Jul 14»
