circularity

• Faced with such truculent conversational circularity, the kappa asked no more questions In the days that followed it was impossible not to see that the child was disturbed. —  Asimov'sSF,Dec2005
• Finally, Pluto turned out to be much too small (2,320 km in diameter, smaller than Earth's moon) to cause the apparent oddities in Neptune's orbit that had led to the search for a "Planet X" in the first place Footnote 4: Eccentricity is a measure of how far an orbit is from circularity. —  AnalogSFF,March2006
• There was a circularity, too, to the circumstances of the Madoff fraud. —  pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator
• Presuppositionalists try to weasel out of that charge by claiming that there are different types of circularity, that their method does not rely on mere vicious circularity (which they agree is a logical fallacy) and that all methods of inquiry rely, to some degree, on presuppositionalism. —  Planet Atheism
• With the tinkering and discovering comprising local trial-and-error and evolution's handiwork, that 'circularity' carries out ( 'computes') integrative functions not explicitly encoded in the inherited and acquired information base of the system. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]

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