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reductio ad Hitlerum

reductio ad Hitlerum noun: an attempt to invalidate someone else's argument on the basis that the same idea was promoted or practiced by Adolf Hitler or the Nazi Party.

Noun

reductio ad Hitlerum (plural reductio ad Hitlerums)

  1. An attempt to invalidate someone else's argument on the basis that the same idea was promoted or practiced by Adolf Hitler or the Nazi Party.
    • Just on Twitter alone, there were too many arguments, too many reductio ad Hitlerums for me to handle alone.2018, Carl Miller, chapter 7, in The Death of the Gods […] , William Heinemann, →ISBN

Forms of reductio ad Hitlerum

pluralreductio ad Hitlerums

Origin of reductio ad Hitlerum

Pseudo-Latinism. Coined by Leo Strauss in 1951, by analogy with reductio ad absurdum.

Questions about reductio ad Hitlerum

What does reductio ad Hitlerum mean?
Reductio ad Hitlerum means an attempt to invalidate someone else's argument on the basis that the same idea was promoted or practiced by Adolf Hitler or the Nazi Party.
What part of speech is reductio ad Hitlerum?
Reductio ad Hitlerum is a noun.
What is the plural of reductio ad Hitlerum?
The plural of reductio ad Hitlerum is reductio ad Hitlerums.

Words near reductio ad Hitlerum in the dictionary

  1. reductibilities
  2. reductibility
  3. reducting
  4. reductio ad absurdum
  5. reductio ad absurdums
  6. reductio ad Hitlerum
  7. reductio ad Hitlerums
  8. reductio ad Stalinum
  9. reduction
  10. reduction division
  11. reduction divisions

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