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reduce to an absurdity

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  • reduce to an absurdity — trivialize, make ridiculous …   English contemporary dictionary

  • reduce — verb /ɹɪˈdjuːs,ɹɪˈduːs/ a) To bring down the size, quantity, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower, to impair. Neither [Jones] nor I (in 1966) could conceive of reducing our science to the ultimate absurdity of reading Finnish… …   Wiktionary

  • oversimplify — (Roget s IV) v. Syn. reduce, over reduce, reduce to an absurdity, make too simple, make too simplistic, restrict; see also simplify …   English dictionary for students

  • John Baldessari — Infobox Artist bgcolour = #6495ED name = John Baldessari imagesize = caption = birthname = birthdate = 1931 location = National City, California deathdate = deathplace = nationality = American field = Painting, Conceptual art training = movement …   Wikipedia

  • Jean-Baptiste Pérès — (1752 1840) was a French physicist best known for his 1827 pamphlet Grand Erratum a polemical satire, translated into many European languages, that attempted in the interest of conservative theology, to reduce to an absurdity the purely negative… …   Wikipedia

  • literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …   Universalium

  • Cornelius Van Til — Full name Cornelius Van Til Born May 3, 1895 Grootegast, the Netherlands Died April 17, 1987 Era …   Wikipedia

  • History of Physics —     History of Physics     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► History of Physics     The subject will be treated under the following heads: I. A Glance at Ancient Physics; II. Science and Early Christian Scholars; III. A Glance at Arabian Physics; IV.… …   Catholic encyclopedia

  • Joseph J. Romm — Joseph Romm, 2007 Joseph J. Romm (born June 27, 1960) is an American author, blogger, physicist …   Wikipedia

  • humour — /hyooh meuhr/, n., v.t., Chiefly Brit. humor. Usage. See or1. * * * I (Latin; fluid ) In early Western physiological theory, one of the four body fluids thought to determine a person s temperament and features. As hypothesized by Galen, the four… …   Universalium

  • Australia — /aw strayl yeuh/, n. 1. a continent SE of Asia, between the Indian and the Pacific oceans. 18,438,824; 2,948,366 sq. mi. (7,636,270 sq. km). 2. Commonwealth of, a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, consisting of the federated states and… …   Universalium

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