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circular argument

noun

Definitions

  1. A term often conflated with begging the question in philosophy.

  2. An argument which commits the logical fallacy of assuming what it is attempting to prove.

    • A logically circular argument’s conclusion is included as one of its premises.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for circular argument. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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