Open loop Sentence Examples

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,” it was one of the most famous first chapter lines in literature. A killer hook, a gripping backstory, an unforgettable character — no, we’re not talking about a horror movie plot. These are some of the elements that contribute to an enticing first chapter. We can’t give you a magic formula that will get your opening line quoted as much as Charles Dickens’, but we can give you some advice on how to write a first chapter that puts a spell on readers.

Circular reasoning, from the Latin Circulus in Demonstrando, occurs when the end of an argument comes back to the beginning without having proven itself. This form of reasoning is considered a pragmatic defect, or informal fallacy, rather than a formal logical fallacy because it follows a valid pattern of argument: A proves B. However, unlike a logical argument, B depends on A to be true, causing the statement to loop back around.