infinite regress
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of infinite regress
First recorded in 1830–40
Example Sentences
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In order to avoid an infinite regress, we must assume an unmoved mover who put all the entities into motion.
From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022
The story doesn’t build so much as it burrows, digging into crevices to reveal an infinite regress of damage.
From New York Times • Jul. 29, 2020
This is the problem of infinite regress, which bedevils all who try to explain why there is something rather than nothing.
From Scientific American • Sep. 7, 2019
Others include LEDs and mirrors configured to create the illusion of infinite regress.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2017
Our familiar universe of galaxies and stars, planets and people, would be a single elementary particle in the next universe up, the first step of another infinite regress.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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