Alston concedes that we can't give a good noncircular argument for the claim that CMP is in fact reliable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference

He pays the same compliment to SP, however: we can't give a good noncircular argument for its reliability either.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference

However, he was aware that "a celestial body endowed with noncircular motion" ¦ was a threat to the Copernican system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barney Teaches a "Scientific Fact"] Reference

True enough: I realize that I can't give a good noncircular argument for their reliability, but this gives me no pause.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference

A noncircular orbit has a quadrupole moment which can produce gravity waves — distrubances in spacetime which radiate out as waves.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dark, Misleading Force] Reference

Indeed, the fact is, he argues, all of our basic doxastic practices are in the same epistemological boat; none of them can be shown in noncircular fashion to be reliable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference

Memory beliefs too, sadly enough, are uncredentialed; there is no way, as far as I can see anyway, in which one can show, in an epistemically noncircular way, that memory is reliable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference

This definition of intelligence as the causal factors responsible for changes in probabilities or, equivalently, for net increases in information is noncircular and, on reflection, should seem unproblematic.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Third Choice (ID Hypothesis)] Reference

Therefore they too are uncredentialed; we can't give an epistemically noncircular argument for the reliability of reason, for in giving such an argument, obviously enough, we would be obliged to rely upon reason.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference

He couldn't give an epistemically noncircular argument for the reliability of his ways of forming beliefs; for the beliefs constituting the premises of any such argument would themselves have been formed in those ways.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference

We have not found, in the works of any previous writer, any intimation that noncircular wheels have ever been thus combined; and we propose in the following article to illustrate some curious results which may be thus obtained.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885] Reference

But this is really irrelevant to the point I make here, which is that it is a necessary truth that no doxastic agent, no matter how exalted, could give a good, epistemically noncircular argument for the reliability of his doxastic faculties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference

I believe he succeeds in establishing the important conclusion that it is not possible to show in a noncircular fashion that SP is reliable -- at any rate he gets as close to establishing this conclusion as philosophers ever get to establishing any important conclusion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference

In the wide original position, therefore, I would be convinced that SP and CMP are reliable sources of belief, despite the fact that I realize it isn't possible to give a good noncircular argument for their reliability; hence, in the wide original position, the rational thing to do, obviously, would be to continue with them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference

We are to engage in the following thought experiment: try to see what it would be rational to do if you didn't already believe in the reliability of SP or CMP, knew that there are no good noncircular arguments for their reliability, and (correctly) believed that it is up to you whether you engage in those practices: under those conditions, would it be rational to continue in forming beliefs the SP or CMP way?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference

According to the first, in essence, it is perfectly sensible or rational to continue to form beliefs in the SP and CMP ways, because (1) those ways do not lead to massive inconsistencies, (2) there is no reason to think them unreliable, (3) we know of no alternative doxastic practices whose reliability we could demonstrate in an epistemically noncircular fashion, and (4) changing to some other practice would be massively difficult and disruptive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference

The book begins with detailed coverage of the fundamental theory and presents a variety of tools and algorithms for dealing with improper and noncircular signals.    From Wordnik.com.  [ebookshare] Reference

To de-emphasize the disproportional role of getting a GlamourMag publication on one's CV and to re-emphasize the lasting quality and impact of the science itself in a noncircular way.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

This book deals with improper and noncircular complex signals, which do not conform to classical assumptions, and it demonstrates how correct treatment of these signals can have significant payoffs.    From Wordnik.com.  [ebookshare] Reference

Then the original position with respect to SP includes (1) my knowing that it is within my power to form beliefs in the SP way and also within my power to withhold SP beliefs, (2) my knowing that it is not possible to give a good noncircular argument for the reliability of SP, (3) my having no views as to the reliability or unreliability of this practice, and (4) my not having SP beliefs or beliefs dependent on perceptual beliefs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference

"crisis of rationality" and a "desperate situation": "The course of the argument led us to the conclusion that with respect to even those sources of belief of which we are normally the most confident we have no sufficient noncircular reason for taking them to be reliable" (146).    From Wordnik.com.  [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference

(1) SP and CMP do not lead to massive inconsistencies; there is no reason to think them unreliable; we know of no alternative doxastic practices whose reliability we could demonstrate in an epistemically noncircular fashion; and it would be disruptive to stop forming belief in these ways; the premises of the second include.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference