circularity

There is, incidentally, a certain circularity to this kind of argument — not in any discrete case, but as a general account of people’s behavior.

Conspicuous Reduction 2007

Indeed, the finiteness of language itself implies that the call for definition must at some point either end or issue in circularity.

Aiguy's Computer 2008

The circularity is the only thing holding it all together.

Last of the Favourites Challenge – Dhalgren, Samuel R Delany « It Doesn't Have To Be Right… 2008

Crown, Kether, involves the idea of circularity and is endless, 753-u.

Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike 1850

Spring KETHER, _Corona_, the Crown, in which the idea of circularity is involved, for there is no _end_ to the out-flow of Light; and therefore

Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike 1850

As you have noticed from the arguably strange format of this writing, there is a certain kind of circularity to it: I tell you something, I get your mind-flow going making new associations between familiar words that, hopefully, lead to, not exactly epiphanies, but minor yet possibly useful insights.

Pavel Somov, Ph.D.: Pavlovian Sleight-of-Words 2010

As you have noticed from the arguably strange format of this writing, there is a certain kind of circularity to it: I tell you something, I get your mind-flow going making new associations between familiar words that, hopefully, lead to, not exactly epiphanies, but minor yet possibly useful insights.

Pavlovian Sleight-of-Words 2010

As for (P7), this seems to follow from the requirement of non-circularity which is a condition on the adequacy of any criterion of identity.

Ontological Dependence Lowe, E. Jonathan 2009

This means that any such argument is infected with a kind of circularity: one will be able to construct such an argument only by depending on the reliability of memory.

Epistemological Problems of Memory Senor, Thomas D. 2009

Now this pattern of "circularity" has ended, says Castañeda, a former foreign minister of Mexico and frequent NEWSWEEK contributor.

Mexico’s 33rd State 2007

Chief Sustainability Officer James McCall gave Ryssdal a tour of the HP ink cartridge recycling facility run by Sims Lifecycle Services in La Vergne, Tennessee. The 80,000-square-foot facility is one way HP is working toward another climate goal: circularity. “The way that we think about it is anything that’s coming from a recycled source or a renewable source or getting a second life,” McCall said. “So these ink cartridges, what we want is to take this plastic and turn it back into the next device.” The company has committed to reach 75% circularity for products and packaging by 2030.

Here's how HP recycles its ink cartridges — and works on climate pledges Kai Ryssdal 2022