Reductio ad absurdum: http://www.iep.utm.edu/reductio http://www.iep.utm.edu/reductio . I use this with everything. Programming, math, thinking of relationships

Reductio ad absurdum: http://www.iep.utm.edu/reductio http://www.iep.utm.edu/reductio . I use this with everything. Programming, math, thinking of relationships between people.... The technique comes naturally, I presume, from dealing with abstract problems. So a lot of people use it without knowing the latin logical phrase.