This paper disputes the widely held view that one cannot establish the reliability of a belief-forming process with the use of beliefs that are obtained by that very process since such self-dependent justification is circular. Harold Brown ([1993]) argued in this journal that some cases of self-dependent justification are legitimate despite their circularity. I argue instead that under appropri...

Complex-valued signals arise in many diverse fields such as communications, radar, biomedical sciences, physical sciences, and related fields. This paper briefly reviews some important tools, statistics, models and estimators that are useful for handling complex-valued random signals. Over the past four decades, circularity (i.e. invariance of the distribution under multiplication by a unit com...

In this paper I develop a theory of reasons that has strong similarities to Peter Klein’s infinitism. The view I develop, Framework Reasons, upholds Klein’s principles of avoiding arbitrariness (PAA) and avoiding circularity (PAC) without requiring an infinite regress of reasons. A view of reasons that holds that the ‘reason for’ relation is constrained by PAA and PAC can avoid an infinite regr...

Fodor offers a novel argument against Bare-bones Concept Pragmatism (BCP). He alleges that there are two circularities in BCP’s account of concept possession: a circularity in explaining concept possession in terms of the capacity to sort; and a circularity in explaining concept possession in terms of the capacity to draw inferences. We argue that neither of these circles is real.

The RTS/CTS access scheme, designed to reduce the number of collisions in a IEEE 802.11 network, is known to exhibit problems due to masked nodes, the imbalance between the interference range and the communication range of the nodes, and scenarios in which nodes are unnecessarily silenced, thus preventing parallel transmissions to take place. We present an approach for enhancing the performance...

This paper describes a software based receiver post processor that corrects circularity and gain errors in coherent receivers. The receiver post processor additionally provides range gating capabilities, signal quality estimation, mixer non-linearity detection and various display functions. This paper will concentrate primarily on the identification of circularity errors by the receiver post pr...

OBJECTIVE The study aimed to evaluate the quantitative characteristics of the macular vessel density (VD) and foveal avascular zone (FAZ) in glaucoma using optical coherence tomography angiography (OCT-A). DESIGN Cross-sectional, age- and sex-matched case-control study. METHODS Fifty-two eyes of 52 patients with primary open angle glaucoma and 52 eyes from 52 healthy participants were recru...

If I were to believe you are trustworthy just on your say-so, my reasoning would be infected with what is called epistemic circularity. I would be supposing a source is trustworthy by relying on that very source. Generally speaking, we tend to think this is a very bad idea. It is why we don’t bother asking politicians or salesmen whether they are honest. A well-known line of reasoning stemming ...

A: Because she knows how to get Arizona's budget back on track. Again, participants judged either reasonableness or circularity, and did so by either ranking or rating arguments. Two-branch arguments were ranked as less circular than one-branch arguments, indicating structural sensitivity, and repetition created less perceived circularity when the opponent had already acknowledged the repeated ...