Sentences with phrase «circular reasoning»

"Circular reasoning" is a phrase used to describe a type of flawed reasoning where the conclusion of an argument is used as one of the premises or pieces of evidence to support that same conclusion. It's like going in a circle without providing any new information or evidence to support your point. It doesn't make sense and is considered a logical fallacy. Full definition
Thanks for a great example of circular reasoning in religion.
And be sure that they WILL try to «save you» by using circular reasoning and emotional tricks.
It's perfectly clear — the poster is talking about circular reasoning, and is correct.
The process actually falls under a logical fallacy called circular reasoning, where A is true because of B, yet B is true because of A.
The lesson instead is to watch out for circular reasoning.
Isn't this the logical fallacy of circular reasoning again?
What nice circular reasoning: what is in the bible is true and it's true because it is in the bible.
As to natural laws help me understand how that is not circular reasoning.
The beauty of this sort of circular reasoning is that you can never be proven wrong.
Using it to prove anything within it is called circular reasoning and falls flat.
At first glance this last point might seem like circular reasoning — like I'm telling you to feel happier by... feeling happier.
Evolution is a theory based on circular reasoning.
I am having trouble distinguishing the third example of circular reasoning from the first two.
God has made Himself known to humanity ------ Sorry, you just go round and round with circular reasoning.
Yes, you would claim circular reasoning if I support my conclusion with what Harry says.
A price is whatever consumers «choose» to pay for commodities, based on the «utility» that these provide — defined by circular reasoning as being equal to the price they pay.
It is submitted that cases, as here, involving financial payments in lieu of competition do not easily lend themselves to the application of a conventional non-competition analysis since the key factor — the monetary amount — has to be implicitly used through circular reasoning.
2 Tightly define your problem, and avoid circular reasoning in describing how you can solve it.
WOW — if you do not know what the words CIRCULAR REASONING mean go there for a prime example.
Pointing to Natural Law to justify the relationship between faith and policy is just the typical circular reasoning used by religious nutbags.
Your wantings for to appease is self - centered based upon your emotionalized hardness in religious circular reasoning capabilities that only the emotionally foolish would dare take the proverbial bite upon.
[6] It is true that we exist to worship and evangelize, but these things just bring more people into the church, which is circular reasoning if we are looking for an ultimate reason for the church.
Holding in your mind contradictions and circular reasoning patterns, clinging to dogmas no matter how much your mind begs otherwise, and repeating fairy tales to yourself over and over until your discomfort with reality finally goes away, is a sure recipe for mental illness and lifelong unhappiness.
The only real circular reasoning I see goes «I think Colin is so witty and smart because he can make fun of things he is ignorant about and I agree with him so that makes me smart too»
Science disproves almost all religious mumbo jumbo, yet with all the evidence in the world religious types still try to squirm around it with some b.s. circular reasoning or an out right idiotic retort like» well you haven't received the spirit of god», which is utterly insane.
Of course, Natural Born Killers is supposed to be a deadly critique of the media, but that's the kind of circular reasoning one has come to expect from the Hollywood virtual - reality bank — satire as celebration, or vice versa.
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