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Indirect indefinite (Score:1)

by WebDragon (1204) on 2004.01.12 12:20 (#27272) Homepage Journal

for example:

(Not resulting directly from an act or cause, but more or less remotely connected with or growing out of it; as, indirect results..)

or

Indirect, or Negative, demonstration (called also reductio ad absurdum), in which the correct conclusion is an inference from the demonstration that any other hypothesis must be incorrect.

So, we have an Indirect Indefinite, or as they say in the business, a 'case of mistaken definity'.

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