Reductio ad Absurdum

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Reductio ad Absurdum:

"Having demonstrated to the mathematician that his

imaginary straight line gets worse and worse-- every time

he gives me an example, I am going to employ the

mathematician's own strategy of dealing with the great

dilemmas as invented by Boole-- the reductio ad absurdum.

Here I now a Jeliberately Non-Straight Line / q.v. /.

"The mathematician having moments of great frustrations

learned to forsake looking for local logic by going in the

opposite direction and choosing the most absurd, and then

progressively eliminating the degrees of absurdity and

working back to the not too absurd. And he is liable to

be able at least to learn the quarry, where his quarry is

a small area. What we call quarrying is objective.

These are hunting terms."

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