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echo: philos
to: CLARENCE HOGAN
from: WILLIAM ELLIOT
date: 1998-01-01 00:37:00
subject: Circular Argument

 WE> A jump start to nowhere.  A trip that ends with it's beginning.  
 CH> Hardly, for it is a jump start back to where he came from, which
 CH> indeed does constitute a trip that ends with it's beginning!
Back to where ... ?  You must have taken the long way, from 0 degrees, to 90 
degrees, to 180 degrees, to 270 degrees, to 360 degrees.  Whew, are you sure 
that was clockwise?  Now to take a short cut, instead of circumnavigating the 
circle, just go in the other direction from 0 degrees to 360 degrees.  Save 
you a lot of bother.  Now as this jumpy bird was already at the end, must 
have been he went from 360 degrees to 0 degrees.  Well if he continues to go 
in circles he'll be reincarnated.
... Irrational fallacy of a preposterously presumptive pretension.
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