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re·duc·ti·o ad ab·sur·dum    Audio Help   [ri-duhk-tee-oh ad ab-sur-duhm, -zur-, -shee-oh] Pronunciation Key
–noun Logic.
a reduction to an absurdity; the refutation of a proposition by demonstrating the inevitably absurd conclusion to which it would logically lead.
[Origin: 1735–45; < L reductiō ad absurdum]
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