Sentences with phrase «circular logic fallacy»

Not exact matches

This is known as the fallacy of petitio principii (begging the question / circular logic).

well, I sometimes bring some of those ways of thinking and operating to this blog... I do nt» mean to, it is almost like muscle memory... someone throws out a straw man arguement or circular logic, or some other logical fallacy, and well... sometimes I jump at it the way I would over at other blogs without maybe taking a moment to re-adjust my attitude.

More intentional obfuscation from the king of circular logic and logical fallacies.

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The one valid point you could make is that circular logic, as with most logical fallacies, does not prove a conclusion false, it simply fails to prove that it is true.

Please, Judith; «begs the question» does not mean what it says; it is a phrase denoting the logic fallacy of circular reasoning.

John — I had seen those two links, but the error by Vaughan Pratt is much simpler than the screening fallacy, and is pure circular logic.