What’s the term that involves trying to rationalize something, but through a certain existing belief set?
I can’t think.
Like, if someone says that it’s idiotic to think that matter just happened to form in the “perfect” way to create diverse lifeforms. But they made this analysis through the belief that life has meaning and that diverse lifeforms are the “perfect” formation of matter.
I hope someone can help.
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begging the question
It's when you take as axiomatic something that itself needs to be proved and use it to prove the very thing you've taken as axiomatic. It's a pillar of all religions. Your specific example touches on the anthropic principle, which in its weakest sense deals with the metaphysical conundrum posed by the very existence of human intelligence in an otherwise void universe.