# Celebrating individual life

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**Created:** [March 16, 2025, 6:31am UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/celebrating-individual-life/11406 "2025-03-16T06:31:26Z")\
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> [@lausten](#):
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> An irrational number is not self-referential and a circle is not a ratio.

I know that.  
3.141592

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> In a circle, the **ratio between the circumference and the diameter** is represented by the Greek letter **π (pi)**. This ratio is always the same, regardless of the size of the circle, and it is approximately equal to 3.141592.

And a circle by its very pattern is self-referential at all points of the circle.  
Hence the term “circular reason”. I am speaking in philosophical generalities.

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