"Philosophy for Beginners" を読んでいます。
When you start to wonder why you believe something...there's always another 'why...?' and the endless chain of whys turns into an infinite regress...
The problem is, that this line of questioning needn't stop here, In fact, some philosophers argue that it could just go to forever, and ever and ever, in what's known as an infinite regress.
"infinite regress" はいつまでたっても議論・話が以前の状態に戻ることを示しているようです。辞書に説明があるか見ます。
・Wiktionary: (logic) A regress into an infinite sequence of propositions in an attempt to found the truth of the proposition Pi on the truth of the proposition Pi+1.
・Merriam-Webster: an endless chain of reasoning leading backward by interpolating a third entity between any two entities
When you start to wonder why you believe something...there's always another 'why...?' and the endless chain of whys turns into an infinite regress...
The problem is, that this line of questioning needn't stop here, In fact, some philosophers argue that it could just go to forever, and ever and ever, in what's known as an infinite regress.
"infinite regress" はいつまでたっても議論・話が以前の状態に戻ることを示しているようです。辞書に説明があるか見ます。
・Wiktionary: (logic) A regress into an infinite sequence of propositions in an attempt to found the truth of the proposition Pi on the truth of the proposition Pi+1.
・Merriam-Webster: an endless chain of reasoning leading backward by interpolating a third entity between any two entities
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