Homunculus
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The homunculus argument in philosophy of mind
A Homunculus argument accounts for a phenomenon in terms of the very phenomenon that it is supposed to explain (Richard Gregory (1987)). Homunculus arguments are always fallacious.
Homunculus a tiny‚ preformed human which people thought merely increased in size to become a baby
(homunculus = little man‚ dwarf) ...
Some scientists speculated they saw a "little man" (homunculus) inside each sperm. These scientists formed a school of thought known as the "spermists".
 See also: Species, Theory, Semen, Animal, Adaptation
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