Reductio ad absurdum
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| − | Reductio ad absurdum is a type of [[logic|logical]] [[argument]] where one assumes a claim for the sake of argument, arrives at an absurd result, and then concludes that the original assumption must have been wrong, since it led to this absurd result | + | Reductio ad absurdum is a type of [[logic|logical]] [[argument]] where one assumes a claim for the sake of argument, arrives at an absurd result, and then concludes that the original assumption must have been wrong, since it led to this absurd result. |
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Reductio ad absurdum is a type of logical argument where one assumes a claim for the sake of argument, arrives at an absurd result, and then concludes that the original assumption must have been wrong, since it led to this absurd result.
