There is a famous Latin phrase, Credo quia absurdum, "I believe because it is absurd," which has long been attributed to the Church theologian Tertullian (early third century). Tertullian did not ...

An author of the 1973 American Psychiatric Association standard says it was never meant to stop doctors from expressing their opinions based on public information.

it’s just the Protestant principle reaching its reductio ad absurdum. You can find it in Hegel. The idea was that the rational inwardness of the Protestant religion is superior to Catholicism because ...

Wordlessly resolving the dilemma of thought within us is crucial to human survival and the emergence of a new order of consciousness. Truly, self-knowing is the door to liberation and transmutation.

To be driven to such a suggestion is almost to confess a reductio ad absurdum. There seems to be absolutely no reason why the sponges should leave the area, and equally none for their coming back.

Augusto and Santino, two budding civil servants, are mired in total failure in their lives and in the political career they are pursuing. This has led them to an existence full of uneasiness that ...

Anselm now employs a form of reasoning called reductio ad absurdum. This is a very useful technique. In a proof of this sort, we begin by assuming the opposite of what we want to prove. Then we derive ...

At this point, with fewer than three weeks until Election Day, warning the American people that the election is an existential matter for the future of their democracy and freedom is the ...

In the course of a single generation of physicists, black holes morphed from near jokes—the reductio ad absurdum of mathematical tinkering—to widely accepted facts. Black holes, it turns out ...

More than 230 doctors declare Trump too unstable to serve in ad campaign from George Conway’s PAC - Letter states that the ...

First, the assertion of the intrinsic incommunicability of matters of faith leads to, or is already, a reductio ad absurdum. Great religious works have been written through the ages by members of ...