It becomes a
circular argument - they need profile to claim the award, but need awards, and recognition, to get the profile.
So you can see the
circular argument there." No timescale for the completion of the project reports were disclosed and a redeveloped Garrison Lane structure would be multi-purpose.
Such an approach to science leads to a
circular argument in which some researchers argue that music discrimination predicts phonological skills, which in turn predicts reading ability and that reading ability implies phonological skills and so on.
Susheel Kirpalani, an attorney for Lehman's Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors, told the court that Barclay's was making a '
circular argument' and that Lehman was only in court now because new evidence showed the deal had gone wrong.
"They have to be creative and innovative with their sponsorship but it is a
circular argument in that we have to have to get the broadcast and terrestrial television rights to make it attractive."
"They have to be creative and innovative with their sponsorship, but it is a
circular argument in that we have to have to get the broadcast and terrestrial television rights to make it attractive."
Much of the time, unfortunately, this judgment seems to be based on circumstantial evidence and even
circular argument.
That, however, is a
circular argument that creates a self-fulfilling prophesy.
Indeed, the same
circular argument took place during the current discussion about universal childhood immunization: Wait to make the recommendation until the supply and infrastructure are already in place, or do it now in order to spur such progress?
The difficulties of this approach are apparent throughout the book as Martinez-Torres considers everything from indigenous culture and ethnic identity to successful social struggles with the state to be a form of "capital." The result is a somewhat
circular argument for the book's theoretical conclusion.
More recently, as most of the visible leaders of fundamentalism have in fact been southern, the media collectively presents a
circular argument: The South is backward because it is fundamentalist, and it is fundamentalist because it is backward.