Sentences with phrase «reductio ad absurdum»

One resists the temptation to do a reductio ad absurdum.

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

Lord Justice Sedley used a reductio ad absurdum to illustrate why the tribunal's narrow interpretation in Arthur was unsustainable:

Good grief: it's the (I should have expected it) reductio ad absurdum of legal advice.

Indeed, addressing the reductio ad absurdum argument that the Court of Session deliberately ducked, he thought that merely to state that the claim was one under the Equal Pay Act might well be enough and would not be a «surrender to tokenism».

Twitter is a sort of reductio ad absurdum of the blog and the social network.

He dismisses such targets as a «magically safe level of carbon dioxide» — a reductio ad absurdum meant to put him above the fray, allowing him to critique all those trying to avert 800 + ppm — a CO2 level he once told me is where he expects we'll end up.

This reductio ad absurdum is inappropriate, but we observe that individuals like climate scientist James Hansen, environmental activist Robert Kennedy Jr., and economist Paul Krugman have characterized critics of climate alarm as «traitors to the planet.»

I think you give new meaning to the phrase reductio ad absurdum.

I may be wrong here, but I took WillR's fencing comment to be an instance of argumentum ad sarcasm, a derivative form of reductio ad absurdum.

The comparison to asteroids is simply to show that reductio ad absurdum is an inappropriate argument, a red herring in this case.

Ie you reduce yourself to a reductio ad absurdum.

Cogley (1999) referred to the use of this density of measurements to eliminate all but measurement error, as reductio ad absurdum.

You know, BBD, you're straining your hive - conditioned, party - line flunky, pea - brain just a bit too hard with your little, over-wrought, unconvincing, reductio ad absurdum «proof» that «consensus» climate scientists are not, in the main, sell - out, toady, enablers of the CAGW scam — toiling away (as much as a bunch of parasite, suck - up, goof - off, sloth - freak dorks with a spoiled brat sense of entitlement can ever be said to «toil away» at anything) on behalf of your trough - provider, make - a - buck / make - a-gulag, ripoff - the - taxpayer betters.

In situations like that, Ms. Baer's paintings seem to flaunt their reductio ad absurdum, as if to say: this is all it really takes to achieve maximum visuality.

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.

It's not reductio ad absurdum or a send up.

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.

She has appropriated photographs by Edward Weston and Walker Evans, exemplifying reductio ad absurdum: If an artist can claim anything as art, even art, then what happens to the authorship claim of that original artist?

Is it outlandish — a reductio ad absurdum of the Duchampian, even — to regard color, the most emotionally affecting of visual... read more... ««All power to the hardboiled intellect»»

Krebber's work represents the reductio ad absurdum of a love - hate attitude toward painting that was common among the artists of the 1980s Cologne art scene led by Martin Kippenberger (for whom Krebber once worked as a studio assistant).

Yes folks, we've finally reached the point of reductio ad absurdum:

asset managers, BRICS, closed - end funds, developed markets, dollar - cost averaging, emerging markets, frontier markets, Hong Kong, Howard Marks, NAV discount, NAV premium, portfolio allocation, reductio ad absurdum, Trading Economics

The book recounts the reductio ad absurdum of this system: a temporary employee doing very well at a job but disqualified from permanent hiring because she doesn't match the job's computerized criteria.

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.

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

The most famous is Schrödinger's cat, which demonstrates the implausibility of a certain interpretation of quantum mechanics using a classic reductio ad absurdum.

«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.

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.

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

Accordingly, the concept of universal movement [All - Bewegung] does not simply form a methodological - dialectical starting point, a beginning, whose truth - function solely consists in ultimately insuring, through a reductio ad absurdum, its own impossibility.

It is true that this latter procedure, in contrast to reductio ad absurdum, does not render the initial concept of a universal - movement altogether impossible, even though the concept would remain indefinite and ambivalent in its truth - functionality.

Offering a reductio ad absurdum of that view, he says: «To take microreducibility as impugning the reality of what is being reduced would make all of our observable world unreal» (SM 102).

Kim himself formulates this paradox as a reductio ad absurdum: «if our reasons and desires have no causal efficacy at all in influencing our bodily actions, then perhaps no one has ever performed a single intentional action!»

It's not very convincing reductio ad absurdum, but I doubt it was meant to be considered a piece of serious debate.

It is closer to reductio ad absurdum, which is not a fallacy.

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.

This is meant to be a reductio ad absurdum, but the absurdity is self - imagined One can almost feel Thornton's horror at the possibility that any aspect of God might be contingent upon the world

But, of course, one can also read this as a reductio ad absurdum of the contemporary state of the academy in this country.

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

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

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.

The reply of Jesus is a reductio ad absurdum of any quantitative treatment of the question.

excepting your attempted reductio ad absurdum, is there is a substantial difference between «love thy neighbor» and «be excellent to one another»?

I shall abandon the argument of love for a time (written by Carol), or the reductio ad absurdum arguments (written by me), the arguments of Christ or of Paul the Apostle; or the arguments of seeking the Lord for wisdom (written by Gary).

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

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.

Not exact matches

My second point is that I do not see how one who adheres to the doctrine of regional inclusion can avoid affirming that one prehension has two subjects and this implication of the doctrine constitutes a reduction ad absurdum.8 That if established, it would be a reductio is clear from passages such as the following: «A feeling is in all respects determinate, with a determinate subject, determinate initial data...»; no feeling can be abstracted either from its data, or its subject» (Process and Reality, An Essay in Cosmology 338 and 355).