What's wrong with infinite regresses?

Metaphilosophy

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 523-538

  Nolan, Daniel ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Infinity; Parsimony; Regress

Indexed keywords

EID: 61049256812     PISSN: 00261068     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9973.00206     Document Type: Article

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