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...
| Publicado en: | Metaphilosophy Vol. 32; no. 5; pp. 523 - 539 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Oct2001
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