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You've mentioned this before, and I don't really know where it comes from. Do you have any specific philosopher or text in mind, or is this just a habit your perceive in philosophical argument? If so, in whose argument? Professional or historical or amateur philosophers?
Aside from some early-modern empiricists, and maybe Stoicism, I can't think of anything.