title: Absurd
text: # Absurd
  
  Absurd or The Absurd may refer to:
  
  ## Entertainment
  
  * Absurd (band), German metal band from the 1990s
  * "Absurd", a 1997 song by Fluke, from the album Risotto
  * "Absurd" (song), a 2021 song by Guns N' Roses
  * Theatre of the Absurd, art form utilizing the philosophy of Absurdism
  * Absurd (film), 1981 Italian film
  * Absurd or surreal humour
     * Absurdist fiction
  
  ## Philosophy
  
  * Absurdity, general and technical usage—associated with extremely poor reasoning, the ridiculous, or nonsense
  * Absurdism, a philosophy based on the belief that the universe is irrational and meaningless
  * Absurd, a term used in logic to describe a contradiction
     * Reductio ad absurdum, a type of logical argument
  