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Will It Go Round in Circles?

In the process of argumentifying, people often come back around on their original proposition. For example, a, therefore b; b, therefore c; c, therefore a. This is basically the rhetorical equivalent of the time some older kids nearly convinced me that, if I was strong enough, I could stand on a rope and, holding each end in my hands, lift myself. In case you’re wondering, that doesn’t work. Two equal forces — if indeed I had been able to exert a force equal to my own weight — cancel each other. Two assertions, each supported only by the other, both fall.

Which is just a pseudo-intellectual way of segueing from nothing to say into something else.

The logical fallacy described above is called “circular reasoning”; surely you can see why. What happens, though, when one engages in circular linking? I know what you’re thinking, and you are quite correct: you might learn something about sanctification.

Bonus (just because the hair cracks me up):