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Tom: No, you've mischaracterized her reasoning. She's saying that you ate that pie for emotional reasons….
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Nonsense Tom—any mischaracterization is your own. You were the one that specifically said:
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Take hunger as an example. People said in the past "I always eat because I'm hungry". Why? Because whenever I'm hungry, I eat. The circularity here just means that the conclusion can not be fully suported with that little of evidence; it doesn't mean that it's wrong.
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And that’s what I did Tom—per your request, I took “hunger as an example,†and clearly showed how/why MM’s (or anyone’s for that matter) circular reasoning, whether it be for hunger, or emotions, or whatever, is useless . . . and thanks again Tom for providing the example of hunger since it provides such a an unambiguous picture of how/why circular reasoning is useless.