CIRCULAR REASONING
Some years ago while on the faculty of the University of Missouri in Columbia, I called my wife, Ann, and asked her to pick me up at the circle drive near Switzler Hall where my office was located. I wasn’t thinking very clearly, for there were two circle drives. One was a handy little circle that came right up to the back door. The other was a larger more impressive drive that came within fifty yards of the front door. People often drove up to the front drive to get a scenic view of the old red brick campus complete with the huge Ionic columns associated with the campus. Well, you guessed it. I went to the smaller less impressive drive. Ann went to the larger one. About the same time we both figured out what happened. I came around to the front of the building just in time to see her pull away. Even then I didn’t figure where she was…
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