WHAT'S WRONG WITH INFINITE REGRESSES?

It is almost universally believed that some infinite regresses are vicious, and also almost universally believed that some are benign. In this paper I argue that regresses can be vicious for several different sorts of reasons. Furthermore, I claim that some intuitively vicious regresses do not suffe...

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Publicado en:	Metaphilosophy Vol. 32; no. 5; pp. 523 - 539
Autor principal:	Nolan, Daniel
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Wiley-Blackwell Oct2001
Materias:	Philosophical analysis Vicious circle principle (Logic) Reasoning Intuition Reductionism Irrationalism (Philosophy) Form (Logic) Methodology Theory
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