Sentences with phrase «on ad infinitum»

As God ensures the continuation of the series of occasions constituting the contingent world, does the continuation of the series of occasions of his own reality necessitate, as Neville puts it, «another kind of super-divine ontological being» (p. 61)-- whose continuation would, presumably, require the postulation of a super-super being and so on ad infinitum?
The process of numbering shall simply go on ad infinitum as does the series of positive integers.
If, hypothetically, they had not managed to start [my heart] then my experience of those four days would have carried on ad infinitum.
After one year, your principal was $ 103, so interest just adds on ad infinitum.
Daily life has to be planned, and the working day can not go on ad infinitum, but has to be very efficient in a shorter time frame.
I could go on and on ad infinitum, but this is a good start...
If the man's intellect was changed by his will and his will by something else and that something else by something further and so on ad infinitum, there would be no sufficient explanation of the fact that the man has started to think about Shakespeare.
In the present case, it is important that we do not lose sight of the fact that, in reality, there is no such thing as an electrical field that is separable from current sources, a medium, chemical gradients, heat, gravity, and so on ad infinitum.
Perhaps another act could include it, but then a further mechanism would be required, and so on ad infinitum.
And so on ad infinitum.
When a priest chides a penitent for indulging in sinful thoughts, they both assume that behind the agency which controls his actual sinful thinking there is another agency which decides what subject he should think about; and so on ad infinitum.
«Oh, how are you, what lovely little toes you have, look at this picture there's a cow, moo moo, you can say moo too, moo moo, yes, aren't you a clever one, yes aren't you a clever one, you are, you are» — on an on ad infinitum.
Catch phrases — many of academic origin (supply and demand, economies of scale, stimulus and response, IQ, schizophrenic, identity crisis, reinforcement, social skills, computer model, the selfish gene, and so on ad infinitum)-- are accepted uncritically by most literate people as representing eternal realities.
«And of course they'd do the new Powerpuff Girls theme song, because, well, it's a goddamn cartoon,» and I could go on and on ad infinitum, res ipsa loquitor, and all that other shit and basically be a mean FDP and overall asshole, and plead, «Hey, man, cartoons have their place!»
... and on and on and on ad infinitum.
And so on ad infinitum.
It doesn't matter how many tags you add in, there will always be an inter-element position on either side, so this odd / even numbering scheme keeps going on and on ad infinitum.
These mechanics are the language of mise en abyme — of mirrors and spaces that go on ad infinitum.
Binary models infuse our thinking at every level in society, as life is constantly split into various dichotomies of rich / poor, traditional / contemporary, animal / human, and so on ad infinitum.
This conversation could go on ad infinitum (hopefully not ad nauseam!).
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