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17 August 2022

  • curprev 23:2923:29, 17 August 2022‎ Pooyamo talk contribs‎ 1,681 bytes +1,681‎ Created page with ";'''§4.7''' ''“Reductio ad absurdum”'' (“reductio” for short) is Latin for “reduction to absurdity”. It refers to the strategy of proving a proposition false by deducing an absurd conclusion (often a contradiction) from it in conjunction with other known premises. Such arguments are common in math. They were used to prove that the square root of two is not a rational number (and thus that there are such things as irrational numbers) and that there is no larg..."
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