Sentences with phrase «on circular reasoning»

It is based on circular reasoning.
This is interesting, I was surprised that you had not commented on the circular reasoning problem before.
It is hard not to consider Christianity as based on circular reasoning.
Evolution is a theory based on circular reasoning.

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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.
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.
On the other hand, rising to Kant's challenge leaves it exposed to the charge of circular reasoning.
All I hear on here is the circular reasoning — you have to believe to believe or the bible confirms god and I believe the bible because it is the word of god.
-- 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.
So all that scholars really have to go on is the text itself — a wild ride on a rickety, ancient, circular - reasoning roller - coaster with little external data to anchor our knowledge of anything.
Unfortunately, most atheist would ignore the large themes in the book and focus on what they call circular reasoning as a reason to discard one of our greatest treatises.
Circular reasoning on display here.
A circular sent to nurses and sighted by Pulse.com.gh mentioned their salary arrears as one of their reasons for embarking on the withdrawal of service.
In recent decades it has slowly become more circular than oval, for reasons unknown, leading some researchers to suspect it is on the verge of dissipating.
Remember the diagnosis of ADHD is always made on the basis of circular reasoning; i.e «why does johnny misbehave?
This type of circular reasoning can be difficult for consumers to understand, because false information is verified as correct based on the same false information.
The author appears to set out that this reliance on «circular reasoning» is profound enough to be fundamental to the scientific understanding of AGW and its consequences.
«In the circular reasoning that has become common in oilsands decision - making,» wrote the Pembina Institute's Director of Oil Sands Jennifer Grant, «the Panel based its recommendation that the project be approved on the assumption that the rules would be strengthened, rather than on the likely impacts of the project under existing regulations.»
Ah, bobdroege reappears, after being repeatedly shot down on the recent thread with his ludicrous «theory» that a static, closed, laboratory gas cylinder in equilibrium is somehow analogous to the dynamic, open, not - in - vertical - equilibrium 100 km atmosphere in a gravity - field, and his false claim that NASA used «circular reasoning» in deriving the «NASA Fact Sheet» physical values for Venus.
My point: over-reliance on consilience in the context of climate science unfortunately lends itself to circular reasoning.
To claim that the results of these models help prove AGW would be such an obvious example of circular reasoning that even Peter H. and Steve B. could see it with blindfolds on.
How, exactly, is this not circular reasoning on the one hand, and circular reasoning from an obviously false premise on the other?
Now there... any of the smart people here want to start some new convoluted thought experiments and circular reasoning based on that?
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?
Javier, there is no circular reasoning going on, only data and observations that seem to align together over the Holocene.
Example research papers on the impact of fossil fuel emissions on tropical cyclones, on sea level rise, and on the carbon cycle demonstrate that the conclusions drawn by researchers about their anthropogenic cause derive from circular reasoning.
It blunders around in the dark making fantastic claims and wanting to exercise enormous power over people's lives based on a lot of wishful thinking and circular reasoning.
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.
So they argue that it is circular reasoning to claim a broad scientific consensus based on publication track records.
(c) the adjudicator used circular reasoning by rejecting the respondent's evidence with respect to her call to her legal colleague based on the adjudicator's finding that the respondent had refused to provide a breath sample as described by the officer (para. 39); and
The display experience has been above the average for two reasons, in my opinion: first, it is a fully circular AMOLED display with an ambient light sensor (no flat tire like we saw on multiple other watches), and second, because ASUS» included watchfaces make good use of the rich display by not «gimping» the ambient mode.
One of the main reasons the ITA's circular might be appealing to token issuers is that it describes deferrals on when ICO income would become taxable, plus it mentions the potential for crypto companies to earn special tax treatment.
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