Reductio ad absurdum* as applied to the Golden Rule

Posted by John Small | Mar 4, 2020 | Small Talk

(* - A Latin term that means “the refutation of a proposition by demonstrating the inevitably absurd conclusion to which it would logically lead.”) A few weeks back, some of you may recall, I devoted a portion of this column to a discussion of how the basic philosophy at the heart of what many of […]

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John Small

John A. Small is the Managing Editor and (with Publishers Tom and Mary Lokey) co-founder of the Johnston County Sentinel, a weekly newspaper headquartered in Tishomingo, Oklahoma. He came to Tishomingo (his mother’s birthplace) in 1991 and spent the next three and a half years as reporter and columnist for the Johnston County Capital-Democrat. Following a two-year stint as News Editor at the Durant Daily Democrat, he returned to the C-D as News Editor in 1997 and remained there until January of 2018, when the Sentinel was founded. To date his work as a journalist has earned him more than 220 awards from the Oklahoma Press Association, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Associated Press, the National Newspaper Association, and the Oklahoma Education Association.

Reductio ad absurdum* as applied to the Golden Rule

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