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Boomeritis

Wilber claims that he intended the novel to exhibit the traits of extreme post-modernismirony, self-reference, noetic flatness — and thus to function as a literary reductio ad absurdum, assisting people, especially Baby Boomers, in overcoming the post-modern mentality.

Principle of explosion

Proof-theoretic paraconsistent logics usually deny the validity of one of the steps necessary for deriving an explosion, typically including disjunctive syllogism, disjunction introduction, and reductio ad absurdum.

Should the Bible Be Banned

The song's aim is to reduce to absurdity calls to ban books and films following well-publicised acts of violence.


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