apagoge
apagoge
(ˌæpəˈɡəʊdʒɪ)n
an indirect argument which serves to prove something by showing the contrary to be absurd or impossible
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apagoge
a method of argument in which the proposition to be established is emphasized through the disproving of its contradiction; reductio ad absurdum. — apagogic, adj.
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