Infinite regress is a philosophical concept to describe a series of entities. Each entity in the series depends on its predecessor, following a recursive...

"Turtles all the way down" is an expression of the problem of infinite regress. The saying alludes to the mythological idea of a World Turtle that supports...

Look up infinite regress in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An infinite regress is when there is an unending chain of causes: Regress argument is the...

that any proposition whatsoever can be endlessly (infinitely) questioned, resulting in infinite regress. It is a problem in epistemology and in any general...

"Infinite Regress" is the 101st episode of Star Trek: Voyager, the seventh episode of the fifth season. The show depicts a Starfleet spacecraft slowly...

since every proposition requires justification. Infinite regress, also represented within the regress argument, is closely related to the problem of the...

showing that it entails an infinite regress that is vicious. The cosmological argument is a type of positive infinite regress argument given that it defends...

circular reasoning or infinite regress. When this recursion creates a metaphysical impossibility through contradiction, the regress or circularity is vicious...

book called Infinite Regress, that was published in March 2020 by Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite. The book shows his series of Infinite Regress paintings and...

recursive step does not get closer to a base case, but instead leads to an infinite regress. It is not unusual for such books to include a joke entry in their...

second homunculus's head, and so forth. In other words, a situation of infinite regress is created. The problem with the homunculus argument is that it tries...

beliefs.[citation needed] Evidentialism also faces a challenge from the infinite regress argument. This argument begins with the observation that, normally...

Hans Albert in 1968 in reference to a trilemma of "dogmatism versus infinite regress versus psychologism" used by Karl Popper. It is a reference to the...

Ultimately, Achilles fails, because the clever tortoise leads him into an infinite regression. The discussion begins by considering the following logical argument:...

Second Way, which rests on the impossibility of a causally ordered infinite regress, and those of Leibniz and Samuel Clarke, which refer to the principle...

propositions Infinite regress, a problem in epistemology Regression (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Regress. If...

Concept of Mind (1949) that the intellectualist legend results in an infinite regress of thought: According to the legend, whenever an agent does anything...

apply to any subsequent reason they cite. This threatens to lead to an infinite regress since the epistemic status at each step depends on the epistemic status...

Divergence (computer science) Fork bomb (an infinite loop is one of two key components) Infinite regress "Endless loop dictionary definition". Archived...

variety of universes after each Big Bang event in an infinite cycle. In logic, an infinite regress argument is "a distinctively philosophical kind of argument...

Look up regression, regressions, or régression in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Regression or regressions may refer to: Regression (film), a 2015 horror...

have the same restrictions. This, in turn, may lead to a problem of infinite regress wherein each new presumed creator of a creator is presumed to have...

this characterization of meaning is that it threatens to lead to an infinite regress: at each step, something is meaningful because something else is meaningful...

proposition or endless series of statements or regressus ad infinitum (infinite regress). In the Hindi language, anavastha means nothingness. Anavastha (Sanskrit:...

with an emphasis on the alleged metaphysical impossibility of an infinite regress of past events. First, Craig argues that the universe began to exist...

new level, requiring a third level, and so on in an infinite regress. At the end of the regress was a "superlative general observer" who existed in eternity...

raised in the episode. This episode was released on VHS, paired with "Infinite Regress". On April 25, 2001, this episode was released on LaserDisc in Japan...

(ii) this in turn will inevitably lead to a vicious infinite regress. The vicious infinite regress arises, because to explain why the second appeal to...

theories cannot dispense with primitive notions, under pain of infinite regress (per the regress problem). For example, in contemporary geometry, point, line...

yield an infinite regress of homunculi. Each explanatory homunculus is “stupider” or more basic than the homunculus it explains, but this regress is not...