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Shouldn't this be merged with regress argument? --AceMyth 00:58, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
"Distinction is made between infinite regresses that are "vicious" and those that are not." Does anybody have references for this? And who was when the first to distinguish explicitly between "vicious" (or malign) and benign (harmless) infinite regresses? 81.3.214.196 (talk) 20:15, 13 August 2013 (UTC)
Apparently some regresses are considered "vicious" and others not. Can someone elaborate on what these terms mean, and what are some criteria used to distinguish? I'm going to add a definition I've found, but I'm by no means well informed about this. — Coelacan | talk 00:18, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
Does the session on optical recursion belong in the philosophy article?
Is this article biased? Is it really the case that using an infinite regress to explain an idea warrants an incomplete explanation? There are some objections to the cosmological argument that incorporate the idea of an infinite regress of causes, say, as not insufficient but normal, comparing it to the way we explain anything in every day life: we explain things in every day life with explanations that incorporate other explanations that incorporate other explanations... and so on -- an infinite regress of explanations. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ellenx (talk • contribs).
This article seems strikingly insufficient in that it defines infinite regress only in terms of propositions in a chain of deduction. Many other kinds of infinite regress ought be considered and are considered in philosophy. For example there is the old story of "turtles all the way down" with the old woman who proposed the earth is resting on a back of a turtle, who is resting on another turtle and so on "all the way down". The relationship between the turtles is not one proposition implying another, but one of gravity and support. Propositions ABOUT the turtles may be true or false, but this is an example of infinite regression of TURTLES, not of propositions. The turtles supporting each other literally, and not abstractly as logical deduction. In a similar way, considering philosophical views of cosmology will often involve infinite regress of natural causes and effects. The things in the regression are actual things, rather than propositions about the actual things, and the relationship between them is one of natural patterns of cause and effect rather than a deductive pattern of one proposition implying another. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nelicanbear (talk • contribs) 02:06, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
In the Aristotle's Answer section, the initial line is a the start of a quote reading Some[attribution needed] hold that, owing to the necessity of knowing the primary premisses...
Can you really demand attribution in a quote? 206.255.127.192 (talk) 10:49, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
Amusing, but the self-referential link isn't actually an example of infinite regress. 99.246.107.22 (talk) 08:01, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
This article says:
But nothing in the article explains the difference! Michael Hardy (talk) 12:18, 2 August 2014 (UTC)
light (or relevant particles) does not loose energy between bounces? D1gggg (talk) 19:03, 7 November 2017 (UTC)
If we want to ask "How the universe has appeared?" and are hearing an answer like "The universe was made by God", we may ask "Who had created the God?". If the answer is "They were created", we have Infinite regress. And this answer became impossible and therefore False. If the answer is "They were always", we have an unnecessary level of reasons, because if we allow something to "be always", we can just say "The Universe was always". Here, by Okkam's razor, we have no any necessary to mind any God in this problem. So, we need no "God" at all to have the Universe!
This can be another one good example of a popular topic, related to infinite regress. --Nashev (talk) 15:22, 4 March 2019 (UTC)
This entire section is crap. It's just some dude writing a forum post in wikipedia form. It's asking the reader a question, for crying out loud. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.80.45.250 (talk) 02:12, 15 April 2020 (UTC)