circular argument ,
circular logic
circular reasoning

"You mean I've simply been working around a circular argument?"

Thus creating, in the true sense of the term, a circular argument.

One has to be especially careful not to get caught up in circular arguments.

This is simply a circular argument - why did they commit a crime?

Pupils can often fall back on a circular argument such as: Why is the relationship linear?

A circular argument goes on about who is responsible.

There will always be the tricky circular argument about coverage of women's sport.

One can justify with a circular argument, but this sacrifices its validity.

These include terms used in the study of logic, such as circular arguments and appeals to emotion.

The two camps also remained locked in a circular argument over debates.

Perhaps these locked-in circular arguments don't matter any more, I thought.

This appears to be a circular argument, typical of closed-belief systems.

That is, the creation of the concept may be based on a circular argument or tautology.

This becomes a circular argument that takes us right back to the subject of this article.

The old circular arguments raced through his mind as they had done two hundred thousand years before, and were no closer to resolution.

That would be a circular argument that could only end with the demise of the newspaper.

There's a lot of circular arguments in there.

It is, of course, a strange circular argument.

Is this not just a defensive circular argument?

One official who spoke with the women made little headway with what was a circular argument.

It is a circular argument with an infinite regress.

Socrates counters each attempt by pointing to inconsistencies and circular arguments.

Instead of a circular argument, debating 'what is art'?

"It seems pointless to continue a circular argument."

Failure to recognize this leads to circular arguments.

You also need to understand what circular logic actually means.

By a circular logic, only the prisoners could say if the system worked.

They can point to things like this and use terrible circular logic.

Your take on the circular logic of consumer products was brilliant.

I wanted to get away from the circular logic.

It's a circular logic that's not going to get us out of this box."

His circular logic about the eggs (not sure if you've gotten there yet) is amazing.

There was a circular logic to that, but not one Travers wanted to explore.

If that sounds like slightly circular logic, it is typical of this year's complexities.

To pursue that too closely would be merely to confirm circular logic.

I do remember vaguely this form of circular logic being used and I think it was her.

This circular logic sounds more persuasive in print than it plays out on screen.

But that was a peculiar exercise in circular logic that is hard for anyone to take seriously.

That's circular logic which my colleague can tell you is not logic at all."

This is a masterpiece of circular logic.

Circular logic: The kin have First Law status because the supervisors?

He wasn't used to such circular logic.

Once again, he entered the circular logic of motives and opportunities that defined international relationships in this part of the world.

This is the sort of circular logic puzzle that one might find diverting if one were to read about it in a story."

Circular logic, is it not?

Such circular logic is commonly used by pseudoscientists.

Bing talks extremely fast and often employs circular logic.

Within the book, "Catch-22" is a military rule, the self-contradictory circular logic that, for example, prevents anyone from avoiding combat missions.

Knocking down straw men, circular logic and ad hominem tactics by his opponents.

Is anyone else finding their humor being infected by the circular logic and non sequiturs used in the book?

Such is the circular reasoning that now passes for budget strategy.

Begging the question is commonly known as circular reasoning, though they are not exactly the same.

Well that's circular reasoning if I ever heard any.

Circular reasoning like that provides a wonderful hiding place for my little group.

Yet the circular reasoning behind this claim is fundamentally flawed.

So it seems, but the estimate could be skewed by a case of circular reasoning.

Is there another, formal logic term for that kind of circular reasoning?

Begging the question is a form of circular reasoning.

He then commented explicitly on the dangers of circular reasoning.

Once again in the Hiss case, we are asked to accept evidence that is the product of circular reasoning.

If these results are not carefully established in advance, the proof may give rise to circular reasoning.

Circular reasoning can't get you out of this dilemma.

This circular reasoning lets the ends justify the means.

I patted down the gun again, finding a way out of the circular reasoning by feeling its hard outline under my fingers.

The administration replies that this is circular reasoning.

Her critics said she used circular reasoning, assuming from the very beginning all the results she was trying to prove.

An even simpler example of poisoning the well is by tautology and definition, or circular reasoning.

This is an example of circular reasoning.

As explanations of behavior, intervening variables can lead to an error in logic called "circular reasoning."

With regard to evolution, Huxley (page 328) ingeniously points out a case of circular reasoning.

However, it can laso lead to circular reasoning, preventing evolution of thought.

To avoid this circular reasoning, Kant asserted that there must exist a fundamental attractive force.

The four dissenting justices said the majority relied on speculation and circular reasoning to endorse discrimination.

In a nifty bit of circular reasoning, the Pentagon says special forces learn how to carry out one of their most important jobs - training.

That bit of circular reasoning neatly sums up present-day El Salvador.