'petitio principii' in A Personal Anthology | Bookmarker

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"assuming the initial point"; a fallacy of circular reasoning

The Cartesian “I think, therefore I am” is thus invalidated: to say I think is to postulate the I, and is a petitio principii.

—p.49 A New Refutation of Time (44) by Jorge Luis Borges

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