'absurdities' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something that is ridiculous or irrational. Example: The absurdities in the novel made me laugh out loud.
Zeno then explains that he intends this argument as a kind of defense of Parmenides' monism: just as others have argued that monism leads to absurd results (Zeno may be thinking here of the sorts of absurdities mentioned by Plato at Sophist 244b 245e), so pluralism suffers consequences that are, if anything, even more absurd.
I want to put such absurdities to rest once and for all and give you a categorical assurance that, if Londoners voted for me to be their first elected mayor, I would work with your Government, not against it.
He is keenly aware of his own absurdities, which not only include his sartorial "fetishism" (his word) but also a fairly manic obsession with football (in general and Crystal Palace in particular), and music (again in general, but especially Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones).
One of the many absurdities of Tory education policy is a school commissioning system that militates against cohesion, while demanding a unified sense of British values.
Maybe it is the contrast between these absurdities, and damehood's cosier, far more inclusive associations with aprons, wisdom, occasional shouts of "behind you", that allows new beneficiaries to exult to a point that might sound immodest were they alluding, say, to a future of being called sir or milord.
There is little to laugh at in a group whose methods include burning sleeping schoolchildren, but absurdities abound.
His latest annual publication on government waste singled out $297m spent on an unused army blimp and $432m on new air force planes that will not be flown, as well as less expensive absurdities like the $3m NASA spent studying Congress.He hated subsidies for rich farmers.
In Washington state, a campaign to introduce charter schools is backed by the millions of Bill Gates and Paul Allen, Microsoft's co-founders.There are no absurdities this year to match, say, Oklahoma's 2010 vote (later struck down) to ban courts from using sharia law in their deliberations.
And those who follow, let alone partake in, these negotiations, endlessly locked in an attempt to produce climate agreements which command assent, or at least acquiescence, from every single country here, are used to dealing with absurdities which follow more or less logically.
Just like today's Mr Madelin, Bastiat railed against the absurdities of protectionism and the interfering stupidity of the state, satirically proposing in parliament that the government should protect France's candlemakers from the "ruinous competition of a foreign rival"—namely, the sun.Unhappily for Mr Madelin, few Frenchmen have read Bastiat.
He is sharp and amusing, left-ish of centre, but hard-wired to detect the absurdities of both left and right.
