Circularity

There is, incidentally, a certain circularity to this kind of argument — not in any discrete case, but as a general account of people’s behavior. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Indeed, the finiteness of language itself implies that the call for definition must at some point either end or issue in circularity. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The circularity is the only thing holding it all together. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Crown, Kether, involves the idea of circularity and is endless, 753-u. ❋ Albert Pike (1850)

Spring KETHER, _Corona_, the Crown, in which the idea of circularity is involved, for there is no _end_ to the out-flow of Light; and therefore ❋ Albert Pike (1850)

As you have noticed from the arguably strange format of this writing, there is a certain kind of circularity to it: I tell you something, I get your mind-flow going making new associations between familiar words that, hopefully, lead to, not exactly epiphanies, but minor yet possibly useful insights. ❋ Unknown (2010)

As for (P7), this seems to follow from the requirement of non-circularity which is a condition on the adequacy of any criterion of identity. ❋ Lowe, E. Jonathan (2009)

This means that any such argument is infected with a kind of circularity: one will be able to construct such an argument only by depending on the reliability of memory. ❋ Senor, Thomas D. (2009)

Now this pattern of "circularity" has ended, says Castañeda, a former foreign minister of Mexico and frequent NEWSWEEK contributor. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Even if this kind of circularity is acceptable, the correlations alone do not seem strong enough to justify our conformity to the DR and to the Uniformity claim. ❋ Adler, Jonathan (2006)

Carl Zimmer provides a clear argument against complaints of "circularity" in evolution. ❋ Unknown (2005)

As we saw above, if we wish to answer this question without committing ourselves to the kind of circularity dependence coherentism involves, we must choose between externalism and an appeal to brute necessity. ❋ Steup, Matthias (2005)

And since Comment C'est are the last words in the book, they impart to the design a circularity which is, perhaps not too unhappily, lost in English. ❋ Kermode, Frank (1964)

"complementarity" and "circularity" -- seem to have caught the attention of experts, as legislators prepare to consider a new immigration reform bill introduced by Rep. Luis Gutiérrez, D-Ill. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Furthermore, the suggestion that there was "circularity" in the study because Model A in both groups had previously been observed introducing novel behaviors can't be taken as a serious objection. ❋ EMJ [email protected] (2010)

With the tinkering and discovering comprising local trial-and-error and evolution's handiwork, that 'circularity' carries out ❋ Unknown (2010)

A problem of 'circularity' exists for which there is no easy solution. ❋ Tim Lynch Et Al. (2010)