Infinite Regress Arguments

In Christer Svennerlind, Jan Almäng & Rögnvaldur Ingthorsson, Johanssonian Investigations: Essays in Honour of Ingvar Johansson on His Seventieth Birthday. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. pp. 421-438 (2013)
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Infinite regress arguments are used by philosophers as methods of refutation. A hypothesis is defective if it generates an infinite series when either such a series does not exist or its supposed existence would not serve the explanatory purpose for which it was postulated.

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