Reductio ad abdurdum is a very old and well-tested method of logical PROOF. It says that if the logic of your ideas inevitably leads you to something ridiculous, then those ideas which brought you there are also ridiculous - this is simply and exactly true - and applies no matter how fond we may be of our ideas.
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Reductio ad abdurdum is a very old and well-tested method of logical PROOF. It says that if the logic of your ideas inevitably leads you to something ridiculous, then those ideas which brought you there are also ridiculous - this is simply and exactly true - and applies no matter how fond we may be of our ideas.