"Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to ones self-esteem." "Pride and vanity can thus be greater obstacle to learning than stupidity." psychiatrist Thomas Szasz

who,
I've been involved in exchanging views in such fora as these, as a poster, a Mod. or an Admin., since the previous millennium.

I'm embarrassed to confess, I began my cyber-personality somewhat as Treb posts now.
But countless well informed, insightful, well educated people carefully, patiently helped lift me from my narrow-minded, self-imposed intellectual quarantine.

Treb's obviously got a lot to learn, starting with manners.
"Let's try an actual TRANSLATION of that. What "reductio ad absurdum" means is REDUCING TO THE ABSURD." Treb

And the literal translation of "objective" is "thrown upon".
The literal translation of "conspire" is to "breathe together".

But objectivity in the contemporary sense has tenuous relationship to target practice or baseball pitching.
And conspiracy in the contemporary sense has virtually nothing to do with breathing; apart from the fact that the latter is a prerequisite of the former.

No worries. Perhaps in time Treb will learn the practical distinction between a literal translation of ancient Latin, and a valid contemporary definition of an ancient Latin maxim.

Perhaps the greatest irony here is that the eye Treb's finger partially protrudes from is his own.
"All honor's wounds are self-inflicted." Andrew Carnegie

"for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. Galations 6:7

"when the bigots of this world have been privileged for as long as they have, to them equality feels like discrimination." shiftless2