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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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Published in:Metaphilosophy Vol. 32; no. 5; pp. 523 - 539
Main Author: Nolan, Daniel
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Oct2001
Subjects:
Philosophical analysis
Vicious circle principle (Logic)
Reasoning
Intuition
Reductionism
Irrationalism (Philosophy)
Form (Logic)
Methodology
Theory
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