Skip to main content
Post Made Community Wiki by Stefan Kohl
Added an explicit reference
Source Link
Timothy Chow
  • 82.6k
  • 26
  • 363
  • 587

Especially in the philosophy of religion, the term reductio premise is sometimes used. However A Google Scholar search for "reductio premise" (in quotation marks) turns up a few dozen references; one of the most highly cited is Robust vagueness and the forced-march sorites paradox, by Terence Horgan.

However, among mathematicians, I don't think there is any standard terminology.

Especially in the philosophy of religion, the term reductio premise is sometimes used. However, among mathematicians, I don't think there is any standard terminology.

Especially in the philosophy of religion, the term reductio premise is sometimes used. A Google Scholar search for "reductio premise" (in quotation marks) turns up a few dozen references; one of the most highly cited is Robust vagueness and the forced-march sorites paradox, by Terence Horgan.

However, among mathematicians, I don't think there is any standard terminology.

Source Link
Timothy Chow
  • 82.6k
  • 26
  • 363
  • 587

Especially in the philosophy of religion, the term reductio premise is sometimes used. However, among mathematicians, I don't think there is any standard terminology.