If the ambiguity or uncertainty or apparent absurdity can be resolved by the more established aids to construction, is parliamentary material admissible to confirm the construction reached by other means?

Nor would this idea quit him despite its apparent absurdity.

The first author to note this apparent absurdity was G.E. Moore.

But despite the apparent absurdity of McCoy's claim, Edith had chosen to address him as Doctor.

"When reading the works of an important thinker," he advised, "look first for the apparent absurdities in the text and ask yourself how a sensible person could have written them."

This sort of illogic accounts for apparent absurdities that have littered the post-Soviet landscape.

In my ex- perience dozens of apparent absurdities have turned out to be un- assailable facts.

However, Darwin went on to explain that the apparent absurdity of the evolution of an eye is no bar to its occurrence, and elaborates on its evolution.

There was loud laughter, at the apparent absurdity now of such an idea.

Purism was an exercise in reason and even the Dadaists arrived at their apparent absurdities by a process of rational thought.