absurd

Examples of absurdity

absurdity
But the point is that such qualifications are necessary to avoid absurdity.
It is not, however, the experimentalist impulse of a radicalized pragmatism that stands to blame for the atrocities and absurdities of the twentieth century.
The sheer incongruity and absurdity of the comparison is the obvious source of comedy here.
In fact, what they introduce and eliminate amounts to a meta-notion of absurdity, which is denoted by an absence of formula.
The stability condition ensures that substitution also works for formulas involving absurdity and disjunction.
They focus on its absurdities and the humour to be derived from seeking to regulate human behaviour by means of formal rules.
Some of them even resisted it when the "critique" went to the extreme of absurdity and malapropism.
The property-based approach avoids the absurdity of the body-part model, since it recognises the foetus and the pregnant woman as two distinct entities.
At the heart of the early modern response to the learned woman was the sense of the denatured, variously expressed as absurdity, revulsion, or wonder.
It is an absurdity that she can't prescribe antibiotics.
Merciless to small absurdities, he was often oblique and diffident on the big issues.
The sheer success of such an approach in many cases makes it an absurdity to argue that this approach is always mistaken.
We can put the extreme cases aside by focusing on the large common-sense range where absurdities do not arise.
Not the persuasive force of the argument, but the affective energy of intuition brings the foolish animal to realize the absurdity of its desires.
Even if it should turn out that other absurdities afflict the idea of an infinite past,7 this cannot be one of them.
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