| 单词 | to reason in a circle |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto reason in a circle 19. Logic. A fallacious mode of reasoning, wherein a proposition is used to establish a conclusion, and afterwards proved by means of the conclusion which it has been employed to establish; so that, as in a circle, there is really no starting-point. Hence to reason in a circle or argue in a circle. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical syllogism > logical argument > [noun] > logical fallacy > vicious circle circle1646 tautology1659 vicious circlec1792 vicious cycle1846 circulus vitiosus1902 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. iv. 14 The circle of this fallacie is very large. 1647 H. More Philos. Poems i. ii. lxxx You dispute in a Circle as all Logicians know. 1679 R. South Serm. Several Occasions 23 This he explodes as a circle, and so derides it. 1725 I. Watts Logick iii. iii. 472 That Sort of Fallacy which is called a Circle is very near akin to the Petitio Principii. 1837 R. Whately Elem. Logic 225 Arguing in a circle must necessarily be unfair, though it is frequently practised undesignedly. 1876 E. Mellor Priesthood iv. 161 The authority of the law is demanded, and he [Cardinal Wiseman] cites the disputed passage. A more palpable and vicious circle was never devised. < as lemmas |
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