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Old 12-25-20, 10:42 AM
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Originally Posted by jgedwa
reductio ad absurdism is most certainly not a logical fallacy.

Jim
You are, most certainly, correct. I ought to have said that the other poster was using the fallacious “argument to the extreme”, which is sometimes confused during careless lapses in thinking, as I did, with the use of reductio ad absurdum to refute fallacious arguments. Thank you.

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