reductio ad absurdum

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Noun reductio ad absurdum has 1 sense

reductio ad absurdum, reductio - (reduction to the absurd) a disproof by showing that the consequences of the proposition are absurd; or a proff of a proposition by showing that its negation leads to a contradiction
--₁ is a kind of disproof, falsification, refutation

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