Questions tagged [circular-reasoning]
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Give advice on justifying belief in the existence of other minds [duplicate]
Solipsism has the fewest entities (only my mind) and therefore it is the most minimal explanation.
Does that make it more likely than the existence of other minds? Because other minds offer billions ...
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Are there circular reasoning in these explanations? [duplicate]
Other people have minds like mine because:
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Other people have minds like mine:
other people are biologically very similar to me
the behavior of other people is very similar to my behavior.
my ...
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Is Occam's razor a philosophical application of Occam's razor itself in epistemology? Is it a meta for itself?
I have to apologize for my title but this seems to me the only way I could have articulated this weird intuitive idea I had for the Occam's razor meta-analysis. Usually I tend to analyze things on the ...
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Is circular reasoning always a fallacy?
Consider the following dialogue:
A: "I accept only one notion of land property. Namely, 'I am doing what I please here, therefore I have ownership here.’”
B: "But this means you can break ...
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