Sentence examples for A regress from inspiring English sources
A regress argument is meant to support a particular solution to the regress problem on the basis of rejecting the competing solutions.
A regress on meaningful finite conditions is present, and the suggestion is that the regress can terminate only in something infinite, a being so all-encompassing that it need not (indeed, cannot) go beyond itself to obtain meaning from anything else.
The idea of plurality in the deity, like the idea of corporeality in the deity (Auden would not have had an easier time with the Incarnation!), represents nothing less than a retraction of the monotheistic revolution in thinking about God, a reversal of God's sublimity, a regress to polytheistic crudity.
Repeating the same sort of account here would generate a regress.
Facts are also introduced in order to stop a regress of instantiation.
A common objection to volitionist accounts is that they generate a regress of mental acts (Ryle 1949).
Finally, the effects of thermomechanical deformations in a regressing two-dimensional heterogeneous propellant pack are studied and time-average regression rates are reported.
Because of the staggered (on time scale) manner of induction of these events, 5-HT is able to transition the epithelium from functioning to a regressing epithelium.
If he doesn't produce an infinite regress, he produces an argument which stops somewhere.
I had an excuse to regress a little.
What had made a melanoma regress in one host and turn aggressive in another?
