Sentences with phrase «circular reasoning if»

[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.

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If everything goes according to plan, Zappos will take over the old city hall — a slightly loopy paean to 1960s Modernism with a circular courtyard and an 11 - story tower that for some reason has no windows on one side — at the end of 2013.

Hence, if your reasoning starts by assuming that there is no God, then it can not prove that there is no God, because that would be circular reasoning.

Oh gosh... you know... I've never even thought of this fallacy... but there are so many that I come across every day I think this one might have to fall as a subcategory of the Circular Reasoning fallacy if anything....

-- somehow meteorites are used as confirming evidence the earth is 4.54 billion yrs old because evidence on earth can not be confirmed independently, so let's move to «indisputable» circular reasoning and say well if this meteorite is 4.54 billion years old then the earth must also be 4.54 billion years old, since the machine's measurements match.

Once again if you have information to the contrary, please provide the link for it (do not use a site that comes from a theological standpoint - that is circular reasoning and proves nothing.

If she doesn't do it, for any reason, then you will need to wipe the kitten's behind with a warm and wet washcloth in circular motions, to induce bowel movement.

This seems a bit odd giving an answer that ice sheet changes are caused by ice sheet changes as if some circular reasoning hasn't been resolved.

If I did the residual would be zero and R2 = 1, and then I'd agree with you that the reasoning is circular.

You claimed that if density was calculated by NASA using the IGL, that that would be «circular reasoning.»

A further complication arises if datasets used in the model evaluation process are the same as those used for calibration, which gives rise to circular reasoning (confirming the antecedent) in the evaluation process.

If we rely primarily upon computer modeling to resolve the most important questions as to how the natural processes work — as opposed to direct observation — then are we not caught on an infinite merry - go - round of circular reasoning which leads us only to that set of conclusions which the computer modelers themselves determine?

If there were PhD's in «Circular Reasoning» or «CYA» you would all be qualified.

so reinterpret Jones all you want, and by all means use circular reasoning and parsing all you need about what he said, if it helps you to continue...... avoiding...... a serious discussion on this.

Robert, with a little more time to work through what you wrote, it appears to me that the reasoning — I'm not sure if it's yours or Claes Johnson's — is circular.

But if one worries too much about «circular reasoning» there is a very simple technique to avoid it, proposed ten years ago in this very important paper: H. von Storch, Misuses of statistical analysis in climate research.

Then there's the display itself: If companies like Nest, Samsung, and LG can create circular LCD panels for their products, we see no reason why Tivoli should make do with a square display.

Gardner's proposition as to the cause of PAS is rendered tautological by the following kind of circular reasoning: an alienated child (who is supposedly distinct from an abused child) has by definition a brainwashing parent; hence if a child is alienated, then a brainwashing parent exists and is the sole cause.»