What is "absurdum"

Usage examples of "absurdum".

While the homely but not untalented young ladies reproduced my head, limbs, and hump with the utmost care but, seized with a strange diffidence, either ignored my sex organ or stylized it ad absurdum, the pretty young ladies with the big blue eyes, with the shapely but awkward fingers, gave little heed to the articulations and proportions of my body, but reproduced my imposing genitals with the utmost precision.

Was this the reductio ad absurdum of my vision, and must it even as I sat there fade, dissolve, and vanish before my eyes?

We remember that he intended in his philosophy to carry ad absurdum the hypothesis that 'the images of the external objects are conveyed by the organs of sense to the brain and are there perceived by the mind'.

The fact that in so doing it is led ad absurdum has only quite lately occurred to it.

Program riddled with these obvious and idiotic fallacies and reductia ad absurdum which ' Tm going to need to ask you to try and say that again in words I can follow, Geoffrey, if you want me to be right there alongside with you.

Such as the jokes based on the premise that the Credo quid Absurdum est had acquired a multiplier that discredited it quite effectively.

In such circumstances, Tertullian's credo quia absurdum is a salutary antidote to Descartes' cogito ergo sum.

It seems to me that this is a complete reductio ad absurdum - assuming that the concept of a causa sui is something fundamentally absurd.

Mack knows, he says, a quadriplegic with scoop marks and considers this a reductio ad absurdum of the sceptical position.

But the younger priest was visibly annoyed, and sought to draw the incident out ad absurdum in order to find grounds for quashing the fool.

But a Zeno-like reductio ad absurdum isn't necessary for an acceptance of the reality of continuity beyond reasonable doubt to the satisfaction of common sense and experience.