«It's a very serious issue and we're using this tool of reductio ad absurdum [Latin for reduction to the absurd] to highlight it,» Oddo previously said about the site. (dnainfo.com)
Insistently pure and heroically itself, each became a sort of reductio ad absurdum of abstraction to a one - dimensional dead - end, and as such finally self - defeating, that is, no longer seemed to make beautiful music. (gabarron.org)
Gary, Old Adam's arguements are known as reductio ad absurdum, also referred to by some as the slippery slope arguement. (nakedpastor.com)