Absurdum

Buddhapālita (470–550) has been understood as the originator of the 'prāsaṅgika' approach which is based on critiquing essentialism only through reductio ad absurdum arguments.

Burke imitated Bolingbroke's style and ideas in a reductio ad absurdum of his arguments for atheistic rationalism, demonstrating their absurdity.

Euclid stipulated this so that he could construct a reductio ad absurdum proof that the two numbers' common measure is in fact the greatest.

However, Abelard in his Dialectica made a reductio ad absurdum argument against the idea that the copula can express existence.

Stated in terms of von Neumann ordinals We will prove this by reductio ad absurdum.

There are several proofs that is irrational ; they generally require calculus and rely on the reductio ad absurdum technique.

Through proof by contradiction ( reductio ad absurdum ), he could give answers to problems to an arbitrary degree of accuracy, while specifying the limits within which the answer lay.