The Reductios: Techniques for Exposing Fallacious Reasoning There are two techniques that are well-suited for exposing fallacious reasoning and bad arguments. These are the reductio ad absurdum (reduce to absurdity) and what I call the reductio ad consequentia (reduce to the consequences). What we are essentially doing with these techniques is testing the argument presented to see if there are either any contradictions (absurd conclusions) or undesirable conclusions.
