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Ryle's regress

name

Etymology

Described by Gilbert Ryle.

Definitions

  1. The paradoxical situation whereby, if one accepts the cognitivist theory that every…

    The paradoxical situation whereby, if one accepts the cognitivist theory that every action is preceded by a thought, each thought must also be preceded by another thought, and so thinking could apparently never begin.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for Ryle's regress. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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