¶ Reductio ad Absurdum
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Reductio ad Absurdum:
“When scientists and mathematicians fail to find positive clues leading towards solution of their problems, they sometimes reverse their frontal strategies and employ reductio ad absurdum, which by a process of eliminating all the impossibles and improbables, leaves a residue of least absurd, ergo most plausible solutions, which may be reduced, by physically testing to unequivocable answers.”
¶ Citations
- RBF foreword to Samuel Rosenberg’s “The Come As You Are Masquerade Party.” 1970
