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- noun Plural form of
circularity .
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Examples
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It is amusing to watch evolutionary biology tie itself up in circularities when trying to answer the question, ‘why do humans spend so much time reading fiction when this yields no obvious evolutionary benefits?’
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It is amusing to watch evolutionary biology tie itself up in circularities when trying to answer the question, ‘why do humans spend so much time reading fiction when this yields no obvious evolutionary benefits?’
Defensive Evolutionary Biologist goes ape on James Wood 2009
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This was one of those circularities that really drive you crazy.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » So You Want to be An Entrepreneur? 2009
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God forbid we do anything, say anything, write anything, paint anything, anything that might draw attention to the circularities and self-contradictions which ensnare the believer.
Duncan Does Deus Hal Duncan 2006
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It's complicated, multi-layered, often despairing, always simmering with desire, tensile, diasporic, always stunning...the poem samples featured in the Meritage Press announcement don't capture the depths and circularities in the manuscript.
Archive 2007-02-01 2007
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The first letters of that statement (gcec) stand for the logic fallacies of generalization, circularities, either/or, and cause and effect.
Sequential Problem Solving A Student Handbook with Checklists for Successful Critical Thinking Fredric Lozo
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In one of those maddening circularities of federal administrative law, however, the DEA's appeal from Judge Young's ruling was heard by John C. Lawn, then administrator of the DEA itself.
CNN.com 2009
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In view of certain developments in non-well-founded set theory (i.e., set theory tolerating cases of self-membership and, more generally, of membership circularities ” see Aczel 1988; Barwise and Moss 1996), one might indeed suggest building mereology on the basis of an equally less restrictive notion of parthood that allows for closed loops.
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Language and image, each trespassing in the other's house, secrete disquieting disjunctions, conundrums, circularities. "
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Language and image, each trespassing in the other's house, secrete disquieting disjunctions, conundrums, circularities. "
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