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    The explanandum (why exclusion rather than inclusion beca... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Exclusionary behavior toward the outgroup was selected as the dominant coordination strategy because it served as an efficient focal point for ingroup coordination.

    The explanandum (why exclusion rather than inclusion became salient) is smuggled into the explanans, rendering the argument circular.

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    • 1.The argument assumes exclusion became salient without explaining why that salience emerged rather than inclusion's salience.
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    • 2.Circular reasoning occurs when the conclusion (exclusion's salience) appears in the premises without independent justification.
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    • 3.A non-circular explanation must identify prior causal factors external to the explanandum itself.
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    • 1.Explaining salience through structural conditions (power, resources, threats) avoids circularity if those conditions are independently verified.
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    • 2.The claim of circularity conflates 'mentioning exclusion in the explanation' with 'assuming exclusion without justification.'
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    • 3.Many explanations necessarily reference their explanandum; this is descriptive accuracy, not logical circularity.
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