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		Aperiodic-impossible and sprialling infinite regress patterns based on the W. Infinite regress of an impossible object which is based on an Escher patterns and an infinite regress tessellation are both based on V,P,L and Z with N in a guest role.
		Bending infinite regress patterns of L,N and (L+N) with filler sequences.
		Impossible, infinite regress objects, infinite regress patterns and transition patterns made of L, P and V. Infinite regress pattern made from the P is capped by V's.
	www.basic.northwestern.edu /g-buehler/pentominoes/platelst.htm (469 words)

	THE INFINITE REGRESS OF TEMPORAL ATTRIBUTIONS by Quentin Smith
		These considerations support the contention that the infinite regress of genuine and necessary temporal predications is a regress of analysandum and analysans, not of contradictions and resolutions, and consequently lacks the viciousness McTaggart attributed to it.
		The infinite regress is eliminated with the elimination of the temporal properties.
		Perhaps a way to eliminate such infinite regresses is to conceive of A-positions as individuals in their own right, as individual events or entities.
	www.qsmithwmu.com /the_infinite_regress.htm (5633 words)

	Infinite regress - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Distinction is made between infinite regresses that are "vicious" and those that are not.
		One definition given is that a vicious regress is "an attempt to solve a problem which re-introduced the same problem in the proposed solution.
		Infinite regress in optics is the formation of an infinite series of receding images created in two parallel facing mirrors.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Infinite_regress (329 words)

	E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum -> Fallacies In Buddhist Disputation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Infinite regress is pretty much the basis for the idea of the mind stream through past and future lives.
		However, the history of infinite regression in the west is intimately tied into arguments for the existence of a creator God; in other words, infinite regress was rejected by theologians because it implied that there was no creator or moment of creation out of nothing.
		Not all infinite regresses are of this type; some are completely consistent and simply reaffirm their initial premiss, roughly in the same way that a repeating decimal repeats ad infinitum.
	www.lioncity.net /buddhism/index.php?showtopic=5431 (3841 words)

	Against Infinite causal regress
		The Infinite causal regress is an important issue in dealing with the cosmological argument, espeicially the Kalam version, and the argument form final cause.
		A actual infinite is defined as A begingless series of events This is not to say that nothing actual could be eternal, but that a series of events with no begining cannot exist in reality.
		This is merely to confusse an infinite with an infinite regress The ICR is an infinite series of events.
	www.geocities.com /meta_crock/cosmological/No_ICR.htm (2170 words)

	E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum -> Infinite Regression (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Examples of infinite regresses that are not incoherent are numerous in mathematics; e.g.
		Because of the prominence of vicious regressions in logic, this lead to the conclusion that all regresses are fallacious.
		Claiming that infinite regression is not plausible because eventually you'd need a first cause lies on the assumption that time flows in linear succession.
	www.lioncity.net /buddhism/index.php?showtopic=17588 (2617 words)

	Craig-Smith Debate: Craig's Initial Arguments
		An actual infinite is not like a potential infinite, which is a collection which is at every point in time finite but is growing toward infinity as a limit.
		The role that remains for the infinite to play is solely that of an idea."{5} So as I understand the actual infinite, it is simply a conceptual idea; it is not something that exists in reality.
		It thus follows that it is impossible for an infinite world–series to have passed away, and that a beginning of the world is therefore a necessary condition of the world's existence.
	www.leaderu.com /offices/billcraig/docs/craig-smith1.html (2928 words)

	Peter Klein Paper
		Infinitism is usually mentioned as one of the logically possible forms that our reasoning can take; but it is dismissed without careful consideration because it appears initially to be so implausible.
		I claim that there would be an infinite number of propositions each of the form "this is a -shaped" such that were we to discern the object referred to by "this" in each proposition, we would consciously think "this is a -shaped" under the appropriate circumstances.
		Infinitism envisions the possibility that if we begin to provide the reasons available for our beliefs, we might eventually arrive at a reason for which there is no further reason that is both subjectively and objectively available.
	chss2.montclair.edu /prdept/HK.htm (13538 words)

	I. Solution of the Cosmological Idea of the Totality of the Composition of Phenomena in the Universe.
		Thus I cannot infer the magnitude of the regress from the quantity or magnitude of the world, and determine the former by means of the latter; on the contrary, I must first of all form a conception of the quantity or magnitude of the world from the magnitude of the empirical regress.
		Such a regress is, therefore, the regressus in indefinitum, which, as not determining a quantity in the object, is clearly distinguishable from the regressus in infinitum.
		And as this regress cannot be a determinate infinite regress, still less a determinate finite (absolutely limited), it is evident that we cannot regard the world as either finite or infinite, because the regress, which gives us the representation of the world, is neither finite nor infinite.
	www.rbjones.com /rbjpub/philos/classics/kant/kant116.htm (1166 words)

	James A. Sadowsky "Can There Be An Infinite Regress of Causes?"
		But if the series were literally infinite, there would be no need for there to be a first cause to get the causal order started, for there would always be a causal order since an infinite series can have no first member.
		The regress is infinite, and this reduces to absurdity the theory that for an operation to be intelligent it must be steered by prior intellectual operation.
		This statement does not involve an infinite regress because being preceded by an event is not a necessary condition for being an event.
	www.anthonyflood.com /sadowskyendlessregress.htm (1412 words)

	Decision making and infinite regress
		In short, I discovered that there were many infinite regress problems and that we need to disaggregate the concept of information before we can get a better understanding of the arguments.
		An example of an infinite regress problem that occurs in the third category, may be the infinite regress that sometimes occur when my action depends on my belief of what you will do and vice versa.
		But, the infinite regress problem could show up in a different way if we focused on the context of search and finding the optimal level of information to collect.
	www.geocities.com /hmelberg/papers/981220.htm (2444 words)

	The Kalam Cosmological Argument and the Possibility of an Actually Infinite Future
		The idea behind a potentially infinite collection is not merely that of a finite collection to which some new addition could be made, but rather that of a collection that is growing without limit.
		Neither does it make sense to suggest that the series of past events is potentially infinite (in the past) since we cannot say that new past events are being continually added to the beginning of the series (though, of course, it is perfectly possible to add new events to the end of the series).
		An infinite past can still be complete in the sense that if one were to count backward endlessly from a particular event in the universe's history, there would be no preceding event that would go uncounted.
	www.infidels.org /library/modern/eric_sotnak/kalam.html (5166 words)

	John Duns Scotus
		But an infinite succession of such causes is impossible unless it exists in virtue of some nature of infinite duration from which the whole succession and every part thereof depends.
		This is not the infinite perfection itself or some matter of which it is the form, as the intellective [soul] is of the body, since this perfection does not exist in matter (from the first conclusion of this chapter).
		The infinite lacks nothing; neither does anything able to be united with it add anything to its perfection; otherwise something could be greater than the infinite.—[b] Secondly, since it lacks quantity or dimensions, material accidents cannot exist in it.
	www.ewtn.com /library/THEOLOGY/GODASFIR.HTM (22135 words)

	Ryle's Regress - Psychology Wiki - A Wikia wiki
		In philosophy, Ryle's regress is a classic argument against cognitivist theories, and concludes that such theories are essentially meaningless as they do not explain what they purport to explain.
		The endlessness of this implied regress shows that the application of the criterion of appropriateness does not entail the occurrence of a process of considering this criterion.
		Ryle's regress is a critique of cognitivism arising from the Behaviorist tradition.
	psychology.wikia.com /wiki/Ryle's_Regress (695 words)

	The Evolution of Cosmological Arguments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ghazzali thought that it is at least theoretically possible for there to be an infinite regress, and that there is nothing that necessitates a first-cause simply by pure deductive reason.
		This forms an essential part of the argument, it demonstrates that an infinite regress could not exist, and that the universe can not possibly be actually infinite, in and of itself.
		Thus a move is made from an infinite regress of events to an infinite regress of explanations.
	www.ais.org /~maftab/TrumanPaper.htm (3190 words)

	Mormon Philosophy & Theology
		In other words, on the infinite regress, we have a mover (what moves A0) that is both moved and unmoved; and, as well, given that to be a moved mover requires that it be moved by something, the nonexistence of that thing means that it is both a mover and not a mover.
		The issue of whether or not the series is actually infinite does not arise at all; what arises is that it is not logically possible to consider the whole series of prior causes as not either involving or being a first mover.
		In fact, this is just the question, "Is this infinite regress vicious?" put in different terms; when you ask whether a infinite regress is vicious, you are simply asking whether the sort of regress involved presupposes finitude.
	www.libertypages.com /clark/10583.html (7933 words)

	dialog 4 round 4
		One fallacy in all of these arguments is to speak of an infinite regress but to take it only one step further.
		If instead you argued for an infinite regress of "gods" at least you would be consistent on that count.
		The view of Foundationalists and Coherentists is to deny the necessity of an infinite regress.
	home.earthlink.net /~gbl111/dialog_4_round_4.htm (1070 words)

	Challenge the Philosophy - Entries 519-523
		The infinite regress concept has no capacity to identify, that which is complete, and whole.
		Adjudicate on the proposition that mechanical mental constructs, which accept infinite regress concepts, as being real, by their very nature can never experience that which is complete.
		In the world we occupy there is no ‘infinite regress’, these types of concepts are imaginary constructs that lead only to further complexity, and exacerbate the cerebral difficulty.
	www.inexpressible.com /e519-523.asp (3922 words)

	"Peter Klein, 'The Infinite Regress of Reasons and the Extent of Our Knowledge'"
		What I choose to call the "warrant-transfer form" responds to the regress problem by suggesting that the propositions are arranged in a circle and that warrant is transferred within the circle ― just as basketball players standing in a circle pass the ball from one player to another.
		What both varieties of infinitism have in common is the claim that the normative conditions for full or complete justification include the existence of an infinite series of non-repeating reasons available to us for our beliefs.
		If pessimistic infinitism were the only reasonable alternative, we might strongly wish it to be otherwise and so, perhaps, it would be better, in some sense, were infinitism false.
	www.soci.niu.edu /~phildept/ipa/Klein.html (7834 words)

	Questions of whether an actual infinite exists, and in what capacity, have woven their way through the history of ...
		I hope to show, despite the continued hope for the infinite past of the universe or for the infinite nature of time, that the concept of infinity, its definition and implications, precludes any instantiation in or as space-time.
		He states, "[Craig] concedes that infinite set theory is a logically consistent system; consequently, it seems that he concedes that there are logically possible worlds in which various 'infinites' obtain." But it is by no means obvious that this second alleged concession follows from the first.
		Also, to say that we do not have a conception of what an infinite number of things is like is merely untrue as far as Cantorian formulas are concerned; there are a number of positive properties of infinities that abide by certain fixed laws of transfinite math.
	www.tektonics.org /guest/kalam.htm (6714 words)

	Adventures in Philosophy: A Brief History of Islamic Philosophy
		Aquinas and Al-Kindi reject the notion of an infinite regress and insist that there must be a first cause, and the first cause must be God, the only uncaused being.
		The material world can also not be eo ipso eternal, because of the impossibility of an infinite duration of time, since the existence of time is contingent upon the existence of bodies and motion, which have been shown to be finite.
		Hick explains, "they interpret the endless series that it excludes, not as a regress of events back in time, but as an endless and therefore eternally inconclusive regress of explanations." Thus a move is made from an infinite regress of events to an infinite regress of explanations.
	radicalacademy.com /adiphilislamessay2.htm (1820 words)

	Peter Suber, Paradox of Self-Amendment, Section 3
		Of the options remaining —immutable rules, infinite regress, and paradox— immutable rules are the least objectionable logically, although perhaps the most objectionable legally.
		An infinite regress is objectionable, not because legal systems contain only a finite number of rules, but because obviously no legislator or judge appeals to an infinity of rules to justify any change of law, including self-amendment.
		Conceivably this need not be so, but in fact judges would rather invent rules to justify their holdings, or double the number of cited precedents to hide the fact that their holdings were unjustified, than to appeal to an infinity of rules.
	www.earlham.edu /~peters/writing/psa/sec03.htm (4977 words)

	The Infinite Regress of the Observer and the Stubbornness of Fact (from Survival of Bodily Death Conference Summary), ...
		When reading this work, Crabtree was struck by Dunne’s parable of the mad artist, in which he describes an infinite regress of knowers.
		While contemplating this infinite stretch, Dunne pondered whether a universe plagued by such a problem could be considered rational.
		Overall, Crabtree suggested that the survival group must come to a satisfactory agreement with respect to the infinite regress of observers, if it is to bring forth an adequate theory of survival.
	www.esalenctr.org /display/confpage.cfm?confid=21&pageid=158&pgtype=1 (1398 words)

	Muck and Mystery: Infinite Regress
		As Tennekes puts it: His [Popper] claim that scientists should be held accountable for the accuracy of their predictions boils down to the requirement that they have to compute in advance the reliability of their computations.
		For complex models, Popper wrote, this demand leads to "infinite regress": computations of forecast skill are much harder than the forecasts themselves, and the next level, forecasting the skill of the skill forecast, is insurmountable when a complex system such as the climate is involved.
		His [Popper] claim that scientists should be held accountable for the accuracy of their predictions boils down to the requirement that they have to compute in advance the reliability of their computations.
	www.garyjones.org /mt/archives/000246.html (1258 words)

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	Bibliografie zum unendlichen Regress der epistemischen Rechtfertigung
		Gardner, Martin: "The Infinite Regress in Philosophy, Literature, and Mathematical Proofs".
		—— "Whither Infinite Regresses of Justification", in: The Southern Journal of Philosophy 23.1 (1985).
		Post, John F.: "Infinite Regresses of Justification and of Explanation", in: Philosophical Studies 38 (1980).
	www.gavagai.de /philrezi/erk/HHPRZE02.htm (807 words)

	Infinite Regress - The MIT Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Within his oeuvre Duchamp practiced a variety of modernist idioms and invented an array of contradictory personas: artist and art dealer, conceptualist and craftsman, chess champion and dreamer, dandy and recluse.
		In Infinite Regress, David Joselit considers the plurality of identities and practices within Duchamp's life and art between 1910 and 1941, conducting a synthetic reading of his early and middle career.
		Taking into account underacknowledged works and focusing on the conjunction of the machine and the commodity in Duchamp's art, Joselit notes a consistent opposition between the material world and various forms of measurement, inscription, and quantification.
	mitpress.mit.edu /catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=4117 (190 words)

	Gamasutra - Feature - "Master's Thesis: Infinite Regress: The Blurring of an Architectural Game-Space"
		Master's Thesis: Infinite Regress: The Blurring of an Architectural Game-Space
		With such technologies architects or designers can further enhance their design by experiencing their designs through a virtual, immersive and interactive real-time environments.
		"Infinite Regress: The Blurring of an Architectural Game-Space"
	gamasutra.com /features/20060411/boron_01.shtml (227 words)

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