Top 22 Quotes About Circular Reasoning
#1. The Mode of circular reasoning is the form used when the proof itself which ought to establish the matter of inquiry requires confirmation derived from the matter; in this case, being unable to assume either in order to establish the other, we suspend judgement about both.
Sextus Empiricus
#2. The possibility of circular reasoning arises-that is, using the temperature record to derive a key input to climate models that are then tested against the temperature record.
Theodore Wilbur Anderson
#3. Circular reasoning is infallible even if not exactly logical, and
this is why so many of us so often resort to it - not so much to
resolve baffling problems, but to be absolved of the obligation
to worry about them.
Zygmunt Bauman
#4. To admit one's own presuppositions and to point out the presuppositions of others is therefore to maintain that all reasoning is, in the nature of the case, circular reasoning. The starting-point, the method, and the conclusion are always involved in one another.
Cornelius Van Til
#5. There is no one who does not feel that he is imprisoned in some way. If this is the result of his own free will he must regard his will as not free, or the circular reasoning in this position would be quite apparent. Free will must lead to freedom.
Foundation For Inner Peace
#6. Here we meet a very important feature. It would seem as if this were circular reasoning; profits fell because investment fell, and investment fell because profits fell. - Jan Tinbergen,5 Jan Tinbergen,
Donella H. Meadows
#9. I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without having to consider success, failure, the market, etc.
Claire Messud
#10. My entire life, I have viewed every problem as an opportunity - I've had no choice.
Clara Shih
#11. As I get on and films take four years to complete, I tend to have a hankering for very short projects so you can move on to the next idea. It's the ideas I'm interested in. What comes out of your head.
Nick Park
#12. Our luck would not run out. That's what i told myself. But they were only words
James Patterson
#13. The sacred idiom shorn of its referents and so of its reality.
Cormac McCarthy
#14. It's frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
Barbara Kingsolver
#15. However long the moon disappears, someday it must shine again.
Chris Cleave
#16. When you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat ax,
Robert Moses
#17. Pilate was required to release one of the prisoners, so he gave the mob the choice of Jesus or Barabbas, a notorious murderer and insurrectionist-in otherwords, someone who incites mobs.
Again, the mob "spoke with one voice" demanding "with loud shouts" that Jesus be crucified.
Ann Coulter
#18. Reason like a sphere? What type of reasoning does a wooden sphere do?"
"The circular type, I should think. And, by coincidence, it is my favorite type as well. Perhaps that's why I'm so good at the game.
Brandon Sanderson
#19. My dad has always taught me these words: care and share.
Tiger Woods
#20. It's my company and I believe in the company that's why I started it.
Eriq La Salle
#21. You'll never know what you're capable of if you never take the first step and try.
Ikish Mullens
#22. Ethan, your father and I didn't break our necks to send you to private schools that taught you to say 'yep' instead of 'yes.
Kevin D. Patterson
