Reductio ad Hitlerum
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Reductio ad Hitlerum, also known as the Hitler fallacy or playing the Nazi card, is an attempt to invalidate someone else's argument on the basis that the same idea was promoted or practised by Adolf
Adolf Hitler, the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945
The phrase was coined by philosopher Leo Strauss.
Reductio ad absurdum
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In logic, reductio ad absurdum, also known as argumentum ad absurdum, apagogical argument, or proof by contradiction, is the form of argument that attempts to establish a claim by showing that followi
Reductio ad Hitlerum
…are not part of the association fallacy. Formulated by Leo Strauss in 1953, reductio ad Hitlerum takes its name from the term used in logic called reductio ad absurdum ("reduction to absurdity"). According to Strauss, reductio ad Hitlerum is a type of ad hominem, ad misericordiam, or a fallacy of irrelevance. The…
Reductio ad absurdum, painting by John Pettie exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1884