Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition/Absurdum, Reductio ad

For works with similar titles, see Reducto ad Absurdum.

​Absurdum, Reductio ad, a mode of demonstrating the truth of a proposition, by showing that its contradictory leads to an absurdity. It is much employed by Euclid.

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