Questions tagged [circularity]
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Begging the question is a type of circular reasoning?
From wikipedia:
Begging the question is a type of circular reasoning, and often occurs in an indirect way such that the fallacy's presence is hidden, or at least not easily apparent.
Is that ...
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Are arguments that Reason is circular themselves circular and/or self refuting?
Are arguments that Reason is circular themselves circular and/or self refuting?. I am basically open to the idea of using Reason to show Reason doesn't work, but really only for specific cases - case ...
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How does culture add meaning to acts?
Suppose we take Thanksgiving in America, then on the day of it, eating a turkey is expected and seen as a highly meaningful activity. However, eating it the day after, or a week after or a month after,...
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Does all justification lead to infinite regress?
Is there any such thing as justification for believing in any statement X that doesn’t lead to infinite regress?
For any statement X, it seems as if you can keep asking why you should or not believe ...
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Past-Memory Loop
x = An event, an image (sensu latissimo) of which you have in yer mind.
x is memory only if x is a past event
x is a past event only if x is a memory
The criterion for x being a memory (and not, ...
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Is circular reasoning always wrong?
I was wondering if circular reasoning is always a problem I was thinking about something like this if A then B, And If B then A.
Premise. A is true
Conclusion. B is true.
All this shows is that B ...
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Can circular reasoning be logical, and can it provide support for the Bible?
Circular reasoning is a type of logical fallacy where the premise is used to prove the conclusion. A basis example would be:
This historical movie is creditable.
Why?
Because it says so.
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How it's possible to describe something if description itself is action that changes universe?
This is some sort of paradox or a fallacy and I want to make sense of it.
This is how I would formulate the problem. To describe Universe we need to take an action - to say the description, write it ...
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Reliabilism, rule-circularity, and the "an inference rule is innocent until proven guilty"-principle
An argument is premise-circular if its conclusion is contained among the premises, and rule-circular if it endorses the reliability of the inference rule by which it was attained.
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