Sentences with word «absurdum»

Now there is a text for the end of the 20th century, a reductio ad absurdum of liberal secularity's elevation of individual freedom to ultimacy.

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.

jferguson Tertullian is the supposed source of the much quoted «credo quia absurdum est» — «I believe it because it's absurd».

Very much an exercise of reductio ad absurdum in action, suggesting some social support is countered by all social support is communism and therefore evil.

«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.

Could it be a new version of Tertullian's «credo quia absurdum est»?

We can take this logic to absurdum then and say that the most moral thing god can do is kill everyone now and give them eternal life; that abortion is god's plan to bring children to eternal life; etc..

It wasn't so long ago that gay marriage was the reductio ab absurdum in policy arguments over sexual orientation.

This opens the progressive position to any number of reductio ad absurdum criticisms.

And in both cases, we are left with the reductio ad absurdum question of what came before the multiverse or God.

This scheme has been disparaged as the «grandmother cell» hypothesis, because in its reductio ad absurdum version it implies that our memory banks dedicate a single neuron to each person, place, or thing that inhabits our thoughts, such as Grandma.

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 days or else be transformed into the animal of their choice.

All the nonsensical corporatespeak, the gratuitous ultraviolence, the press «audience» indistinguishable from a loyal fanbase, the reducto ad absurdum sketches on prioritizing the customer as the one true authority on what a game can and should be — it's not only a parody of the E3 marketing circuit, it's a challenge to why any of us are even here (all 68,000 of us, by ESA's own official estimates).

[Response: Take it to an ad absurdum limit.

It is probably incorrect, but I was using their assumption for a reductio ad absurdum analysis of their explanation.

If your belief is that what you've written reductio ad absurdum refutes the role of GHGs in the climate system, you have some blanks to fill.

Referring to the new Article 34 lis alibi pendens rule for proceedings pending ex-EU, ex absurdum, would there not be an odd lacuna if Article 34 required a stay where there were related non-Regulation foreign proceedings in a third party State and the position were not to be the same for equivalent foreign proceedings in a Member State?

From a legal perspective, I think the ruling is reductio ad absurdum correct.

It's a divergence from historical record only in fact, not in theory, a reducto ad absurdum of Clinton's lusts and evasions.

With Tertullian we might say credo quia absurdum» I believe it precisely because it is absurd.

«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,» said Oddo, who launched the game on his website last week.

Then there's a real Wagnerian nutcase - the Viennese Hermann Nitsch, notorious for actions with blood and guts, throws red paint at giant canvases in a reductio ad absurdum of expression that is profoundly impressive.

Now one Alex Rosenberg has gingerly stepped onto this vaudeville stage with The Atheist's Guide to Reality, where scientific reductionism becomes» there is no other term for it» a full - bore reductio ad absurdum.

But before creation, there was only God, and it would be «absurd» (in the sense of reductio ad absurdum) to claim that God shows mercy to himself.

Gary, Old Adam's arguements are known as reductio ad absurdum, also referred to by some as the slippery slope arguement.

I can not understand how Moloney's critique could suppose the contrary and then end up with a reductio ad absurdum.

There ends the diatribe against scientism, and in particular against the impoverishing arrogance of its reductio ad absurdum.

But the leaders of the Suez enterprise have perhaps been too uncharitably condemned, for they merely brought the older system to its climax (which happens also to be its reductio ad absurdum)-- they merely carried a stage further the kind of policy they had been pursuing all their lives.

To advocate «nothing» is an «Reductio ad absurdum».

Pablo Escobar... Atheists don't «say» that... I did... as a satirical jab aimed at atheists using reductio absurdum... the same way you people do with all your «man in the sky with magic spells» rantings.

The «dictionary» comment, is a satirical jab at atheists based in reductio absurdum... intended to provoke a passionate response (like cheese on a mousetrap, as I said).

reductio ad absurdum; if I give space and time for the agnostics and the atheists to claim their beliefs, then those of us who believe must be given the exact amount of time and space.

Incidentally, the logical proof that we just presented is of a type known as reductio ad absurdum, that is, reduction to the absurd.

These ridiculous analogies (reductio ad absurdum) are never helpful.

Attempting a reductio ad absurdum, she announced that the pacifist position would decimate the race and its achievements.