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Why do people hate circular reasoning?

Anonymous Wed 06 May 21:57:48 2020 No.11644215 View Reply Original Report

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Is there any strict proof that circular reasoning is a bad thing?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 May 2020 21:58:56 No.11644222 Report

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>>11644215
can you give an example of circular reasoning?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 May 2020 22:04:02 No.11644237 Report

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>>11644222
An object in motion stays in motion in an inertial reference frame.
An inertial reference frame is a frame in which an object in motion stays in motion.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 May 2020 22:13:35 No.11644250 Report

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>>11644237
if you defined an inertial reference frame, you must define a non inertial reference frame. same goes for the word motion, once you define all of the words rigorously, carefully making sure no conflicts arrise, if you succeed in doing that, well, then you have found something interesting.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 May 2020 22:15:34 No.11644254 Report

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>>11644215
good question desu.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 May 2020 22:15:40 No.11644255 Report

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>>11644215
Op is a faggot. Why? Because a faggot is OP. We see at once that from a circular argument anything follows and thus it is no basis for a sound system of reasoning.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 May 2020 23:30:30 No.11644455 Report

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>>11644215
In everyday life, circular reasoning isn't all that big a deal. Most people use it on a daily basis without realizing it.

But if you actually care about being right about things on occasion, then it's bad since you can "prove" anything using it.

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Anonymous Wed 06 May 2020 23:33:32 No.11644464 Report

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>>11644215
people hate circular reasoning because they hate circular reasoning

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 May 2020 23:38:58 No.11644482 Report

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>>11644215
All reasoning is ultimately circular. The smallest circles are just the easiest ones to object to.

>b-but muh foundationalism
Knowledge is a raft, not a pyramid

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 May 2020 23:45:51 No.11644498 Report

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>>11644482
>All reasoning is ultimately circular. The smallest circles are just the easiest ones to object to.
based

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Anonymous Wed 06 May 2020 23:49:58 No.11644510 Report

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>>11644215
What's there to like about it? You ever look up a with in the dictionary only to find the same word used in the definition?
Like gee, thanks for the waste of time

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