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Vicious circle
noun
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Noun
- 1 A situation in which the response to one problem creates a chain of problems, each making it more difficult to solve the original one.
"Meanwhile street congestion grows worse and the vicious circle tightens of private motor-cars which impede L.T.E. buses in Central London and of exasperated bus travellers who therefore take to using their own cars."
- 2 an argument that assumes that which is to be proved wordnet
- 3 A fallacy in which the premise is used to prove a conclusion which is then used to prove the premise.
- 4 one trouble leads to another that aggravates the first wordnet
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