Sentence examples for would be circular from inspiring English sources
Any purported criterion, however, would have to be based either on another criterion thus leading to an infinite regress of criteria or on itself, which would be circular.
That's no good either, for the path you choose will shape the very person you become, along with the preferences you develop; so to base your decision on the satisfaction of those preferences would be circular.
That would be circular reasoning.
Conscience can't be pointing to a conflict with itself since that would be circular.
On the other hand, justification by intuition would be circular since (J) is supposed to give the conditions for intuitive justification.
This sort of specification would only be circular if the status of the modal truths was to be analysed in terms of the content of the fiction, but the timid fictionalist has no such pretensions.
It cannot offer a proof of the PNC, since the PNC is presupposed by any proof one might offer any purported proof of the PNC would therefore be circular.
Also, as our reading suggests, it is not clear that d does not, at least by intention, express a complex quantificational notion involving the very concept of obligation (demand) as a proper part, namely that all obligations have been fulfilled, so that the "reduction", presented as an analysis, would appear to be circular.
Though this principle will deliver the biconditional "x is true iff something makes x true" (since "something makes x true" trivially implies "x is true"), this does not yield a promising candidate for a definition of truth: defining truth in terms of truthmaking would appear to be circular.
Clever men worked out that if the center of a small circle was imagined to travel around a large circle, and a heavenly body traveled around that small circle, then the body would appear not to be traveling around a circle, but the motions would really all still be circular: circles on circles are still circles, and the old paradigm is still correct!
