Sentences with phrase «in infinite regress»

Sekine's cylinder even has a counterpart in Iván Navarro's 2012 brick well, which mirrors in infinite regress the word ECHO.

If one looks to the past in this way for novelty, one is involved in an infinite regress, for the novelty of the past must always be explained in terms of its own presentness.

We have to go to the disaster that encompasses the black family, the failure to close educational achievement gaps, the rise of worklessness among black males, the increase in crime, and, behind all these, there are other factors in infinite regress.

At the same time the nightmarish concept of predictability and predestination is swallowed up in the infinite regress.

It is no objection to my mind that if that which has the power to give existence requires also that it receive existence, then we are involved in an infinite regress.

neverbeenhappieratheist, You err in infinite regress when attempting to ask: «then who created God?»

Not exact matches

What is agreed upon is that the self - consciousness involved in the satisfaction of an actual entity can not have the status of knowledge (for knowledge refers us to reflection, and hence to an additional process), nor can it have the structure of intentionality (for intentional self - awareness fractures unity and leads to an infinite regress).

But... the infinite regress in question is an example of the «non-vicious» type of regress, since it concerns possibilities, and these not (on one view of potentiality) as a definite multitude, whose number is infinite, but as a continuum, which in the words of Peirce is «beyond all multitude,» as God was formerly described as being; and indeed, as we shall see, the continuum of possibilities is one aspect of God which may be truly so described.

The infinite distance of O requires that we never halt the regress in order to specify O.

Determinism rejects this and is left with a choice between Spinozism (or the Leibnizian subterfuge) and a wholesale admission of contingency entirely beyond our experience, back at the beginning or back of the beginning, some act of God, endowed with supreme freedom (in a sense in which our freedom is not simply inferior but is zero), or some mere arbitrary, absolute chance, or finally an infinite regress for which nothing at all by way of reason is conceivable.

Furthermore, it can not be argued that the first cause itself had a cause, or you err in creating an infinite regress — an infinite causal chain can not exist.

He can not distinguish questions regarding the existence of the universe from questions regarding its physical origin; he does not grasp how assertions regarding the absolute must logically differ from assertions regarding contingent beings; he does not know the differences between truths of reason and empirical facts; he has no concept of ontology, in contradistinction to, say, physics or evolutionary biology; he does not understand how assertions regarding transcendental perfections differ from assertions regarding maximum magnitude; he clumsily imagines that the idea of God is susceptible to the same argument from infinite regress traditionally advanced against materialism; he does not understand what the metaphysical concept of simplicity entails; and on and on.

A hermeneutic without testimony is condemned to an infinite regress in a perspectivism with neither beginning nor end.

In particular, not sure I buy Dawkins» suggestion that infinite regress is an argument against the «God» concept.

I realize there's no proof of this whatsoever, just don't see how a continual infinite regress in any way proves that there was no «first mover», or «God», or whatever we're calling it.

Thomas, for example, seems to have invoked this axiom in ruling out an «infinite regress of causes» in his proofs for the existence of God.

However, this model will only be found useful if we assume that the hierarchy is open - ended toward infinite regress, both in the upward and downward direction.

In answer to the infinite regress objection that there must be a first, Peirce maintains that knowing is a process, processes are continuous, and continuous series do not have first members.

They have postulated an infinite regress of untestable universes with unknowable dimensions in an attempt to avoid a creation.

Infinite regress: Hong Sangsoo's variations on the theme of frustrated love suggest that we shouldn't get caught up in the details

It's a sort of disembodied rollercoaster ride in which Strange is zapped out of his body, out of earthly consciousness, and into a dimension of the polymorphously perverse in which his hands sprout more hands fractally, his face suddenly turns out to be made of hands (as if in an anatomically themed painting by the baroque master Arcimboldo), and we suddenly fly into Cumberbatch's face and down an infinite - regress funfair slide of mouths within mouths within mouths.

His book Infinite Regress: Marcel Duchamp, 1910 - 1941 was published by MIT in 1998.

David Joselit is Carnegie Professor of History of Modern Art and Culture in the Department of the History of Art at Yale University, and author of books including «Infinite Regress: Marcel Duchamp, 1910 - 1941», «American Art Since 1945», and most recently «Feedback: Television Against Democracy».

Unless you are planning an infinite hierarchical Bayesian regress (prior on prior on prior...), bounds on prior probabilities are very important in Bayesian analysis.

In Reason, deductive proofs might fall to infinite regress, lack of understanding of methods, lack of knowledge of facts, or simply impracticality of exhausting the deductive cases.

It isn't possible to define every concept in terms of other concepts without facing an infinite regress or engaging in circular reasoning.