My Teacher's 'Say Something Like'

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Sometimes it is tricky for me to answer that question. Basically, I will say something like "Birkenstein is correct that people are complex because she says that they can hold more then one point-of-view and absorb the contradictions." My teacher always writes something like "this is circular reasoning, you can't agree with what she says because she says it." At first, I did not has any idea what that meant. Then she explained that the "because" that I write has to be present my own logic and experience I cannot put what the author says "because," since I am trying to explain why I agree with what the author

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