On 7/12/2014 7:51 PM, LizR wrote:
Sorry, as yet I don't see how it can work. It isn't a virtuous circle (which is generally taken to mean something like compound interest working on something which was generated, originally, by some other process) - it's a vicious circle, i.e. one that pretends to explain something but in fact doesn't have any foundation. And it is, in fact, like infinite Russian dolls, in that the explanatory chain doesn't begin or end anywhere.
The point is that explanation must always begin from something you understand. The sense in which this circle is 'virtuous' is that if you understand anything at all then it is somewhere on the circle and so explanation can begin from there.
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