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The response to this charge is generally that there is indeed circularity, but it is not vicious.
This equivocation is not vicious however.
Nonetheless, Franklin et al. conclude that the circularity is not vicious.
O'Neill argues that this circularity is not vicious because the process of verification can be reflexive, as it involves reason critiquing the claims of reason itself.
Rather than attempting to avoid the problem of circularity completely, as their predecessors did, they set out to show that the circularity is not vicious.
One solution is to argue that the regress is not vicious at all and that at most it represents an increment in the number of entities (not kinds of entities) postulated by the theory.
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It is sad, but it isn't vicious or unsettling.
He criticized Kurt for withholding the evidence and wrote, "Santana's plan isn't vicious or mean, it's getting justice.
"Not because politics in Washington isn't vicious — it certainly can be and is — but because Ivanka and Eric Trump's father's political rise was marked by probably the nastiest and most bare-knuckled brand of public campaigning that we've seen in modern history".
Your dog isn't vicious.
I was not vicious, though.
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