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Origin of Phrases - V
Vicious Circle
The true sense of the Latin expression circulous vitiosos is derived from philosophy. To philosophers, this meant a circular argument, in which the proof of one statement depended in part on a second statement, whose proof, in turn, depended upon the correctness of the first.