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apagoge

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Ap`a`go´ge
n.1.(Logic) An indirect argument which proves a thing by showing the impossibility or absurdity of the contrary.
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.
See also: Argumentation


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