Circular definitions, circular explanations, and infinite regresses

Argumentation 8 (3):295-308 (1994)
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This paper discusses some of the ways in which circular definitions and circular explanations entail or fail to entail infinite regresses. And since not all infinite regresses are vicious, a few criteria of viciousness are examined in order to determine when the entailment of a regress refutes a circular definition or a circular explanation.

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