Sentence examples for absurd consequences from inspiring English sources

Reductio ad absurdum, (Latin: "reduction to absurdity"), in logic, a form of refutation showing contradictory or absurd consequences following upon premises as a matter of logical necessity.

The limitation now sanctioned must lead to absurd consequences.

Other statutory prescriptions provide further protection against the absurd consequences imagined by the Court.

None of these examples demonstrate the kind of absurd consequences that would justify departure from the plain language of the statute.

Congress' objective in enacting 17 U. S. C. §602(a)(1)'s importation prohibition can be honored without generating the absurd consequences hypothesized in the Court's opinion.

Where the plain language of the statute would lead to "patently absurd consequences," United States v. Brown, 333 U.S. 18, 27, 68 S.Ct.

Only on this supposition are we involved in no absurd consequence.

This has the patently absurd consequence that steelworks are closing across the land while we import foreign steel with which to build warships.

(Ironically, the French mathematician for whom the spot is named, Siméon-Denis Poisson [1781 1840], believed that Fresnel was wrong and that the prediction of the spot was an absurd consequence of a false theory).

Protagoras just accepts this supposedly absurd consequence; and apparently he is right to do so.

The negation of some hypotheses implies an absurd consequence, and they must therefore be true.