ng out what you never put in’. ? Circularity is question-begging which claims to take out as inference what it put in as assumption. Assumption that Socrates is a man and that all men are mortal does not confirm that Socrates is a man. It confirms that Socrates is mortal if assumptions are sound. Chapter

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the world. "Central to the story is the mathematicians' quest to tame infinity, which begins with the philosopher Zeno of Elea (about 450 BC, before Socrates) who raised paradoxes about infinity, continuity, time, space, and motion that confounded his contemporaries and provoked no less than Aristotle to b

s or avatars beginning with Adam and culminating in Christ and Muhammad, they include several figures from classical antiquity in their list, such as Socrates, Plato, Galen, and some of the pre-Islamic Persian masters. Nusayrism could be described as a folk religion that absorbed many of the spiritual and i