perseveration

plural perseverations

1. countableuncountablehuman sciencesAn uncontrollable repetition of a particular response, such as a word, phrase, or gesture, despite the absence or cessation of a stimulus, usually caused by a brain injury or other organic disorder.
2. countableuncountablehuman sciencesThe tendency to continue or repeat an act or activity after the cessation of the original stimulus.
3. countableuncountableThe act or an instance of persevering; perseverance.
4. countablederogatoryuncountableAn argument by repetition; a mantra.

   Being subjected to this mantra once more re-evokes the perseveration we routinely suffer in the moral ambiguity characterising our supposedly post-politics milieu.

   2006 February 1, Mark Furlong, “Just keep walking: shame has become passe, a victim of a culture that views it as an impediment to achieving one's own ends. But at what cost to how we treat others. (The ‘Me’ Revolution)”, in Arena Magazine

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   Perseveration with demonstrably false arguments. This is illustrated for creationism by the ability to construct an Index to Creationist Claims which describes the plethora of such false arguments, rebutted over and over in the scientific literature but persisted in by creationists.

   2009 September 23, Richard B. Hoppe, “Science, Non-Science, and Pseudoscience”, in pandasthumb.org