¶ Reductio ad Absurdum
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Reductio ad Absurdum:
"Having demonstrated to the mathematician that his
imaginary straight line gets worse and worse-- every time
he gives me an example, I am going to employ the
mathematician’s own strategy of dealing with the great
dilemmas as invented by Boole-- the reductio ad absurdum.
Here I now a Jeliberately Non-Straight Line / q.v. /.
"The mathematician having moments of great frustrations
learned to forsake looking for local logic by going in the
opposite direction and choosing the most absurd, and then
progressively eliminating the degrees of absurdity and
working back to the not too absurd. And he is liable to
be able at least to learn the quarry, where his quarry is
a small area. What we call quarrying is objective.
These are hunting terms."
