APAGOGICAL Demonstration, is such as does not prove the thing directly, but shows the Impossibility and Absurdity which arises from denying it. See DEMONSTRATION. Hence it is also called, Reductio ad impossibile, or ad absurdum. See REDUCTION and ASSUMPTION.
APAGOGICAL Demonstration
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