Sentences with phrase «with infinite regress»

Not exact matches

Share that word around, you can pull it out like «infinite regress» and «first cause» to awkwardly try to conflate the real world with the magical world.

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.

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

Here is an infinite regress of detail that astonishes us with its variety, its complexity and its strange beauty.

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