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Definition of Apagoge
1. n. An indirect argument which proves a thing by showing the impossibility or absurdity of the contrary.
Definition of Apagoge
1. Noun. (logic) An indirect argument which proves a thing by showing the impossibility or absurdity of the contrary. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Apagoge
1. establishment of a thesis by showing its contrary to be absurd [n -S] : APAGOGIC [adj]
Medical Definition of Apagoge
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Apagoge
Literary usage of Apagoge
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Aristotle by George Grote (1872)
"After adverting to another variety of ratiocinative procedure, which he calls
apagoge or Abduction (where the minor is hardly more evident than the ..."
2. Das attische Recht und Rechtsverfahren mit Benutzung des attischen Processes by Justus Hermann Lipsius, Moritz Hermann Eduard Meier, Georg Friedrich Schönmann (1908)
"als Voraussetzung geltend gemacht, so handelt es sich um eine ganz andere Art
der apagoge, auf welche sofort zurückzukommen ist, der jeder verfällt, ..."
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