reductio ad Hitlerum
English
editEtymology
editCoined by Leo Strauss in 1951, by analogy with reductio ad absurdum.
Noun
editreductio ad Hitlerum (plural reductio ad Hitlerums)
- 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.
- 2018, Carl Miller, chapter 7, in The Death of the Gods […] , William Heinemann, →ISBN:
- Just on Twitter alone, there were too many arguments, too many reductio ad Hitlerums for me to handle alone.