The ryan plan is a "reductio ad absurdum " a disproof by taking a proposition to a logical conclusion.

瑞恩计划是一个“归谬证法”——通过推导逻辑结论对命题进行反证。

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The former are a reductio ad absurdum of the latter precisely because both claims follow from the same philosophical approach to rights — they are differences in degree, not in kind.

两者都基于相同的权利哲学，前者恰恰是后者的重复，它们的差异，只是量的差异，并不存在质的区别。

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In the reductio ad absurdum, one person could control the technology that supplied all the energy needs of 310 million citizens.

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Surely he would prove to be not so much the reductio ad absurdum as the dernier cri, the ne plus ultra in the once-rarefied realm of tsardom?

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