The great French free-market economist Frederic Bastiat (pictured above) was considered by many to be the master of the reductio ad absurdum approach that he used quite effectively to expose the ...
A research team at Los Alamos National Laboratory has topped a world record for biological simulations, and given us a taste of reducto ad absurdum. As reported in the Nov. 1 issue of PNAS the LANL ...
A conclusion that doesn’t follow from or is a negation of its premise is an example of reductio ad absurdum, be it in logic or in discourse about democracy. In social constructs such assertions are ...