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VOCABULARY OF PHILOSOPHY – ABSURD

 ABSURD (absurdus, irrational—logically contradictory).— What is contrary to experience cannot be called absurd, for there may be facts and laws unknown to us; but the self-contradictory is absurd. The reductio ad absurdum is a proof of the irrationality of a position. It is at times adopted as a means of establishing a proposition when the contradictory proposition is reduced to absurdity.
 
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