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Saletan's Circular Reasoning
''More to the point—and this is the crazy part—in this case, the crime is gambling. If you plug that information into the evaluation, here's what it boils down to: 'Mr. Donaghy would never have committed this gambling if he was not a pathological gambler.' No kidding! ...The circularity is shameless.'' This is categorically false. Mr. Donaghy's ...
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Human Nature
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georgehale
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August 7, 2008