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In a classic circular argument, the circularity is explicit-- God exists because it says so in the bible, the bible is true because it's the word of God.
Identifying presuppositions takes more work.
Or as the joke goes
How do you know that Jakob wore a Yarmulkeh? For it says "And Jakob went out from Beer-sheba" - and is in conceivable that he went out without a Yarmulkeh??