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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink-1•11 months agocan i get a citation (since we’re debate lording) on what constitutes a “valid” argument and how this fits into that category?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•edit-211 months agoClassical philosophy used it often, The earlier dialogues of Plato (424–348 BCE), relating the discourses of Socrates, raised the use of reductio arguments to a formal dialectical method (elenchus), also called the Socratic method. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum If you want a more modern source, here is a lecture on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iepg5Q4rBAQ&list=PLPnZfvKID1Sje5jWxt-4CSZD7bUI4gSPS&index=53 I can recommend the entire lecture. It’s both entertaining and valuable.
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can i get a citation (since we’re debate lording) on what constitutes a “valid” argument and how this fits into that category?
Classical philosophy used it often,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum
If you want a more modern source, here is a lecture on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iepg5Q4rBAQ&list=PLPnZfvKID1Sje5jWxt-4CSZD7bUI4gSPS&index=53
I can recommend the entire lecture. It’s both entertaining and valuable.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://www.piped.video/watch?v=Iepg5Q4rBAQ&list=PLPnZfvKID1Sje5jWxt-4CSZD7bUI4gSPS&index=53
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.