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Can modern AI detect circular reasoning in prose text?

How effectively can modern NLP systems recognize the logical fallacy of circular reasoning in natural language prose?

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By Joshna Answered 8 months ago

Currently, general-purpose Large Language Models (LLMs) can identify simple circular logic in short, structured arguments when explicitly prompted. However, reliably detecting nuanced circular reasoning in complex, lengthy prose remains a significant challenge. It is doable but requires specialized AI systems combining deep natural language understanding with formal logic and knowledge representation. Such systems would need to parse claims, map premise-conclusion dependencies, and check for semantic equivalence in a contextualized way, which is an active research area.

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