The phrase "avoid absurdity" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the importance of logical reasoning or clarity in communication to prevent nonsensical conclusions or statements.
Example: "In our analysis, we must strive to avoid absurdity to ensure our arguments remain coherent and persuasive."
Alternatives: "prevent nonsense" or "steer clear of absurdity".
Andrei Tarkovsky's last film, from 1986, is a grand, unworldly, even antiworldly religious vision that depends on its perfect pitch to avoid absurdity and bathos.
In what appears to be a severely truncated argument, Parmenides provides two sets of reasons for thinking that this suggestion will not avoid absurdity either.
Michael Dorff, who teaches law at Southwestern Law School, has no truck with the idea that the system just needs to be tweaked to avoid absurdities like Mr Sullivan's jackpot.
Further, it might avoid the absurdity epitomized by one college senior who claimed that she had never taken a science class.
Preplanned workouts would avoid the absurdity of a family buying a $300,000 home, defaulting on its $275,000 mortgage when the home's value falls to $250,000 and eventually buying an equivalent home at the new price and with a smaller mortgage.
The human rights group Justice said this was the minimum required to prevent the lord chancellor being seen as a judge in his own cause and to avoid "the absurdity of the lord chancellor being sued for refusal of legal aid in a judicial review, which substantively is made against another minister or, even, himself".
We can avoid this absurdity by making explicit what the standard definition of validity presupposes that an argument cannot be a candidate for validity unless the premises and the conclusions are both truth-apt.
In the Transcendental Aesthetic, Kant admits that one cannot "blame" Berkeley for falling into a radical version of idealism in an attempt to avoid the "absurdities" of transcendental realism, absurdities into which Kant takes the Newtonians to have fallen (B70-1)—these are the very absurdities discussed above in the section on Kant's criticisms of Newton.
To avoid such absurdities, our jurisdictions would have to be much smaller: a city, or even a country, would have to contain no more than about twenty thousand citizens, to insure that every adult had a chance to hold power for a meaningful amount of time, at least once.
To avoid these absurdities it is necessary to posit the intelligible world (the world of the Forms) alongside the sensible world (the world of perception).
At least the attempt to dislodge Mr Corbyn has avoided that absurdity.
