Sentences with phrase «into infinite regress»

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Responsibility vanishes backward into the unknown beginning, or into an equally unknown infinite regress.

A linear deductive approach to life (and hence to preaching) can become «an infinite regress, always receding into finer and finer analysis.»

Worse still, when we must go out into the open and discuss the fallacy of the infinite regress before the shifting crowd that eddies round Marble Arch.

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.

The inability to «gaze into the abyss» where these bellmouth spillways are concerned reminds me of the infinite regress of barbershop mirrors: where two mirrors face each other, the bottom of the gyre always slips frustratingly out of sight to one side or another, suggesting depths that are beyond us.