apagoge

apagoge

(ˌæpəˈɡəʊdʒɪ)
n
an indirect argument which serves to prove something by showing the contrary to be absurd or impossible
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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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in the accumulation will be proved by the apagoge in the following:
En el texto "Acerca de la clasificacion natural de los argumentos" (14), Peirce expone los tres metodos de razonar, que en la terminologia aristotelica son: epagoge, apodeixis, apagoge. Aristoteles (15) habia tratado la epagoge o induccion, en el capitulo 23 del libro II de los Primeros Analiticos, donde se esboza como un proceso contrapuesto a la apodeixis, que entiende como el razonamiento necesario, o deductivo o apodictico.
Apagoge, Endeixis and Ephegesis against Kakourgoi, Atimoi andPheugontes.
Apagoge, Endeixis, and Ephegesis against Kakourgoi, Atimoi, and Pheugontes: A Study in the Athenian Administration of Justice in the Fourth Century B.C.
For brief discussion see MacDowell, Law, 73-5; at greater length see Mogens Herman Hansen, Apagoge, Endeixis and Ephegesis against Kakourgoi, Atimoi and Pheugontes: A Study in the Athenian Administration of Justice in the Fourth Century BC (Odense: Odense University Classical Studies, 1976), 55-90.
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