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If this kind of demonstration is not permitted, the process of reasoning called deductio ad absurdum, which even the severity of geometry does not reject, could not be employed at all in legislative discussions. One of our strongest weapons against folly acting with authority would be lost.
Jupiter, this gentleman is not practical. This report" she struck the paper on which the Prophet had dotted down his notes "is badly written. The cycloidal curve might have been made by a Board School child. The deductions drawn deductio ad absurdibus reveal no talent, none of the prophetic feu de joie at all. But this mystery of the dressed Crab may mean much.
No escape from this dilemma presenting itself to our friend D's devout but feeble mind, X follows up the assault, by asking him, as a deductio ad absurdum, whether he should like to see the Pope in sandals like St Peter.
This deductio, charmingly described in the beautiful sixty-fifth poem of Catullus, is full of interesting detail which must be omitted here.
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