▲ | raxxorraxor 3 hours ago | |
You will never have an agreement on it. Some see statements as axioms and others do not. Without premises, every form of reasoning can be regarded as circular. You can have an authority on it that determines something as circular or not. But then you will inevitably end up with dogmatism. Someone once said that circular reasoning works if the circle is large enough. Knowing the fallacy might help you detect faulty reasoning in your own thoughts. It doesn't allow for much more practical applications. | ||
▲ | cosmic_cheese 14 minutes ago | parent [-] | |
Maybe, though that suggests that there can be no such thing as a ground truth, which seems kinda shakey to me since it can be used to justify practically any viewpoint imaginable, regardless of how divorced from reality or lacking in verifiable proof it may be. |