(April 2, 2018 at 1:21 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: “It’s clear we’re being guided by something, therefore a guide exists” is circular reasoning.
Well, that would certainly be beginning the question. Because it would be "We are guided therefore there's a guide!" which would beg the question: But what guidance?
He indeed demonstrated circular reasoning thereafter though because he didn't just attempt to support an unsupported premise with another unsupported premise, but he then tried to support that premise with the previous premise that he just failed to support it with.
So, at first he was just failing to demonstrate the guidance required for the guide existed, which begged the question by replacing the question of the guide's existence with the question of the guidance existence. But as soon as he said it was true by definition and attempted to make BOTH premises support EACH OTHER that totally became circular reasoning, yeah.
