Word: reductio
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...whole matter finally reached a reductio ad absurdum when it was discovered that at least one of the men singled out by the practical joker has been a group one man for two years...
...body packed with lawyers, nothing is more fun than a brisk game of splitting verbal hairs. One of the first to take up Senator Borah's challenge was Arizona's bland Senator Ashurst, who attempted to obliterate the Borah argument by a reductio ad absurdum which resulted in dialog that sounded like the Mad Hatter's tea party...
...Americans do not boycott the ceremonies, then they deserve the low opinion that Mary, churchy Lucy Baldwin and the Archbishops, and No. 10 Downing Street hold of them. Perhaps TIME'S able editors were only pulling our legs, after all, by making of the whole bally business a reductio ad absurdum...
...current theory that another world war will start that year. The operations of that war and the destruction of Everytown, which looks very much like London, by a fleet of airplanes should throw a highly practical scare into contemporary audiences. The second portion of Things to Come contributes a reductio ad absurdum of Fascism which should cause it to be banned in Germany and Italy. The climax of the picture is an even more explicit description of a Wellsian Utopia than that foresighted author has ever divulged to his reading public. As a spectacle, Things to Come compares favorably with...
...which particles were treated as "singularities" in the field. Dr. Silberstein carried this out for a two-particle problem, found that, though all stress between the particles disappeared, they remained stationary. Since either Newtonian or Einsteinian gravity would require them to fall together, this seemed to be a reductio ad absurdum. The New York tabloid Daily News headlines: SILBER TOPS EIN WHEN STEIN MEETS STEIN...