Word: reductios
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...minute containment that the human eye never could have detected on the lettuce, the raw meat, the finger, and began to grow myself. Segment by segment. Measuredly,” he (it?) says.His narration is punningly comical. But the depiction of a parasite coming into subjectivity is simply a reductio an absurdum.Following up its anthropomorphized subject with a revivified one, the collection’s trajectory careens even further towards the absurd with “Dreaming of the Dead,” in which the apparition of the late Edward Said appears as a lunch date. Over Chinese food...
...Wollstonecraft’s groundbreaking A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, eighteenth-century philosopher Thomas Taylor published the dismissive satire A Vindication of the Rights of Brutes, sneering that the arguments for women’s rights were also applicable to animals and that this amounted to a reductio ad absurdum of Wollstonecraft’s position. Taylor’s conclusion was wrong, of course, but he was right in asserting that we have the same reasons to respect the interests of all sentient animals—male or female, human or nonhuman...
...massacre of Nepal's royal family may have caused us to shake our enlightened heads at the reductio ad absurdum of a country's having three Kings in four days [WORLD, June 11], but what about our own medieval mentality that has us still going gaga over any whiff of royalty? Isn't it time both East and West stopped clinging to long outmoded values, such as inherited wealth and power, that are residual metaphors for divine right? It is time to kiss Camelot goodbye. KATHERINE E. KREUTER Rancho Mirage, Calif...
...several requests from science museums that just don't get it: Cloaca isn't meant as a didactic take on the human digestive tract. He insists it is a highly pungent comment on the folly of human achievement. Or as New York art critic Adrian Dannatt puts it, "a reductio ad absurdum of Freud's equation of money and excreta...
This totally hot guy in my Philosophy tutorial was talking about the categorical imperative and why Kant was wrong to propose its unconditional supremacy over the hypothetical imperative. He attacked the premise of autonomous will in an argument by reductio ad absurdum, taking it to the Objectionist extreme as put forth by Ayn Rand. I was all, like, impressed, and wanted to show him that I was smart too, so I was about to bring up the need for primary AND secondary laws in a society--and then I farted. Everyone heard me, even the proseminar on Hegel next door...