Because all they have right now are memories of the days prior to the meddling of foreign powers, before their nation regressed in terms of security, prosperity, human rights, education and culture.
(Foundationalism regarding knowledge can be motivated by a parallel version of the regress argument, put in terms of knowledge rather than justification).
More specifically, a time series x is said to 'Granger cause' another time series y, if the accuracy of regressing for y in terms of past values of y and x is statistically significantly better than that of regressing just with past values of y.
It has regressed 20 years in terms of its number of votes.
Weight and height were regressed separately over time, in terms of months since birth (time = 0).
Some of these agents have established efficacy in terms of regressing oral precancerous lesions, demonstrating proof of the principle behind chemoprevention of oral premalignancy.
Rowlands thinks that HOT theories face a vicious regress because they explain state-consciousness in terms of higher-order thought, and because (Rowlands claims) only conscious thoughts make us aware of the things that those thoughts concern.
A third option would be to stress the distinction between phenomenal consciousness and state consciousness more generally, claiming that there need be no regress involved in explaining the former in terms of the latter, provided that some separate account can be provided for the latter.
To control for possible effect of confounding, all sum scores were regressed on several socio-demographic factors in terms of type of educational institution, gender, age, place of living and parents' education.
One way to put the worry is in terms of an infinite regress of decisions.
