Our argument is not flatly circular, but something like it. It has the form, figuratively speaking, of a closed curve in space. (Willard van Orman Quine)

Our argument is not flatly circular, but something like it. It has the form, figuratively speaking, of a closed curve in space.

Willard van Orman Quine

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