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RAARussian Academy of Arts (est. 1757)
RAARegional Airport Authority (Kentucky)
RAARegional Airline Association
RAARoyal Automobile Association (South Australia)
RAARecueil des Actes Administratifs (French: Reports of Administrative Proceedings; various organizations)
RAARural Alberta Advantage (band)
RAARichmond Ambulance Authority
RAARockport Art Association (Massachusetts)
RAAReinsurance Association of America
RAARhône-Alpes Auvergne (French region)
RAAResource Allocation Answer
RAARegistrar Accreditation Agreement
RAARépertoire d'Art et d'Archéologie (French: Directory of Art and Archaeology)
RAAReflexology Association of America
RAAResidential Accredited Appraiser (National Association of Realtors)
RAARoyal Australian Artillery
RAARhumatisme Articulaire Aigu (French: Acute Articular Rheumatism)
RAARight Atrial Appendage
RAARenin Angiotensin Aldosterone
RAARedwood Art Association (Eureka, CA)
RAARegistered Athletic Administrator (various organizations)
RAARecycle Ann Arbor (Ann Arbor, MI)
RAAReductio Ad Absurdum (indirect mathematical proof by contradiction)
RAARecreation and Amusement Association (Japan; WWII)
RAARequest for Allocation Advice (US FEMA)
RAAReeve Aleutian Airways
RAARadiological Accident Assessment (US FEMA)
RAARoot Addressable Area
RAARecycle America Alliance
RAARégiment d'Artillerie d'Afrique (French: Artillery Regiment of Africa; French Army)
RAARoyal Artillery Association
RAAReal Access Alliance (National Association of Industrial and Office Properties)
RAARomanian Angel Appeal Foundation (Bucharest, Romania children's aid organization)
RAAResponsibility, Accountability, and Authority
RAARedeployment Assembly Area
RAAResource Allocation Answer (response to Resource Allocation Request)
RAARear Assembly Area
RAARobot-Assisted Activity (physical support)
RAAResearch Across America (various locations)
RAARetained Asset Account (insurance)
RAARandom Access Algorithm
RAARestricted Access Area
RAARequired Asset Availability
RAARelease Application Aborts
RAARight Atrial Abnormality
RAARegional Application Administrator
RAAReconnaissance Avenue of Approach
RAARegion Administrative Assistant
RAARequest for Alternative Approval
RAARemote Advisory Airport
RAARemote Access Agent (Digital Lightwave)
RAAReservation Aloha Algorithm
RAAReconfigurable-Aperture Antenna
RAARiyadh Alumni Association
RAARigid-Atom Approximation
RAAResearch Associate in Anthropology
RAARequest for Airborne Assets
RAAReceiving Antenna Array
RAARailways Athletic Association
RAARisk Acknowledgement Agreement (online trading)
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Really, today's LGBT activists, along with their sycophantic allies (like the frightened little toadies at Reuters) signify the embodiment of reductio ad absurdum. When one objectively contemplates the logical conclusion of each of their "progressive" propositions, one is left contemplating the absurd.
Reductio ad absurdum
Therefore Mises must have made a mistaken reductio ad absurdum. (4) What would be, then, the right way of negating the time preference principle?
A note on two erroneous ways of defending the pure time preference theory of interest
You don't have a "proof; you have a reductio ad absurdum.
Thoughts on Jason Brennan's The Ethics of Voting
However, since Block did not construct a deductive counterargument against the claim that the principle of proportionality is built into the NAP, but instead resorted to an intuitive argument based on a thought experiment, I feel justified in replying with an equally intuition-based reductio ad absurdum. Let us not in any way alter Thomson's original scenario except for one detail: now X can survive by staying attached to Y for just one minute.
Abortion, libertarianism, and evictionism: a last word
Britain, even more than Germany, has been in the vanguard of this austerity movement, as Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne demonstrated again in this week's budget statement: "Confronted with tough economic conditions, some say we should abandon our deficit plans, and try to borrow more -- they think that by borrowing more, they can borrow less." For Osborne, this reductio ad absurdum seemed so conclusive that there was no need to justify his controversial economic beliefs.
Counterintuitive economics can help politicians
The reductio ad absurdum of Monaghan's apologists is the case of neoconservative Catholic Michael Novak, who has written in typically saccharine prose of the Founder's divine mission, then accepted a "Distinguished" professorship at the university.
Utopia by the slice
The office lingo for plugging into it is "going to the disability." It is a reductio ad absurdum of the instrumentalization of sexuality, one that was often implied anyway in modernity's pneumatic, mechanical model of human libido--that thing of impulses, blockages, and outlets.
Lightning Rods
And, if so, why not, reductio ad absurdum, begin monthly mammograms at age 15?
Cancer by the numbers
In the end, his is a variation on the poetics of the fragment, in which a reductio ad absurdum only demonstrates the futility of any attempt to construct the "grand narratives" of modernity.
Gianfranco Baruchello
This conclusion was purely a reductio ad absurdum (3), (4) on our part.
The optimum quantity of money, once again
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