Brewer's: Absurd

means strictly, quite deaf. (Latin, ab, intensive, and surdus, deaf.)

Reduction ad absurdum.

Proving a proposition to be right by showing that every supposable deviation from it would involve an absurdity.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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