Regression addresses what has come before; it is a matter of
looking backward of retrospections? The motionless things of nature
are generally forward-looking their problem is that of the
question: Where do we go from here? It is primarily with
intelligent beings that we ask: How did we get to where we now find
ourselves? Regression and infinite regression in particular is thus
a concept that has gained a greater prominence in the human
sciences than in the sciences of nature.
Argumentation to infinite regress has long been a favored
instrument of philosophical dialectic. Philosophers have used it to
disprove the positions they model to criticize. Infinite regresses,
so they reason, are unrealizable: they cannot be completed so as to
achieve some definitive result. And thereby anything that would
engender an infinite regress is automatically made ineffective.
Infinite Regress examines the theory of regression and includes
information on the topics of vicious regress, innocuous regress,
circularity regress, and propositional regress. Also discussed is
the history of regression stemming from ancient times, to medieval
times, to early modern history. Some of the other chapters in this
book focus on world class philosophers including Immanuel Kant,
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, and Bertrand Russell. The book will
play a significant role in theoretical philosophy as well as in
social philosophy and the philosophy of mind.
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