Ya gotta love the
circular definition: A high likelihood of potential harm existed if harm resulted.
Bruce Hoffman defines terrorism as "the deliberate creation and exploitation of fear through violence or the threat of violence in the pursuit of political change." (17) If one assumes for a moment that this was the accepted definition of terrorism, then the addition of cyber to this term results in a simple, though
circular definition: cyberterrorism is the use of cyber to commit terrorism.
But putting it that way is a bit of a
circular definition, isn't it?
It's a bit of a
circular definition, but rather than have a difficult and ultimately inadequate definition of pops, Manning offers a way to think about pops music that is based on actual programming.
Art, say many, is that which artists produce--a perfectly
circular definition. What is an artist?
(It might be suggested that this is a
circular definition. Shared frames create communities who are defined as those who share frames.)
This shortened version avoids a
circular definition (a computer is a computer), and it also avoids substituting a synonym for the noun to prevent the appearance of
circular definition.
While the Darden decision has implications for a number of other federal statutes, it has unique implications for purposes of ERISA, which among other things vests in an employee certain rights with respect to any covered employee benefit plan in which such employee participates.(6) The term "employee" defines the universe of individuals who are entitled to the protections afforded by ERISA.(7) ERISA defines an employee as "an individual employed by an employer."(8) Such a
circular definition invites divergent interpretations - as is evident by the Darden case itself.
Despite its breadth, the glossary suffers from some
circular definitions, for example, defining "ozone depletion" as "depletion of ozone ...", and using the words "bioregion" and "conservation" in definitions of "bioregionalism" and "conservationism", respectively.
He then shows that
circular definitions of a kind commonly thought to be benign have inferentially circular truth-conditions and so are malign by Humberstone's test.
We get many lists offering
circular definitions of those things which they are adduced to define.