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gruseom
on March 16, 2013
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The Lyndon Johnson tapes: Richard Nixon's 'treason...
I can't believe you made it from Nixon to Hillary Clinton in a mere three or so steps. We could call it the reductio ad hilarium.
justin66
on March 16, 2013
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It's a tangent, but, one of the things apparent sometimes when politics is discussed is that reductio ad absurdum is absolutely not guaranteed to work as an argument technique. It depends on everyone involved being able to recognize the absurd.
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