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-8 Post author: Carinthium 27 January 2014 09:49AM

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Comment author: asr 28 January 2014 06:26:49AM 0 points [-]

Circular arguments have no correlation with reality except by chance- you may as well make something up and believe it. It would make about as much sense.

I don't believe this is true. A circular argument is at least internally consistent, and that prunes away a lot of ways to be inconsistent with reality.

Comment author: Carinthium 28 January 2014 06:35:11AM -1 points [-]

This assumes the falsity of skepticism to begin with. Even then, it is possible for a circular argument to be internally inconsistent.

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