Sentence examples for a regress from inspiring English sources

And the argument here is basically what we might call a regress argument.

And (b) those whose ground of distinction is size will have to recognize an element prior to the element, a regress which continues infinitely, since every body is divisible and that which has the smallest parts is the element.

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.

With no independent measure of skill available, the results are indecisive and we are caught in a regress.

Finally, the effects of thermomechanical deformations in a regressing two-dimensional heterogeneous propellant pack are studied and time-average regression rates are reported.

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?

This launches a vicious regress.