No successful infinite regress

• Authors: Luna Laureano
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

We model infinite regress structures — not arguments — by means of ungrounded recursively defined functions in order to show that no such structure can perform the task of providing determination to the items composing it, that is, that no determination process containing an infinite regress structure is successful.

Keywords

EN

infinite regress; order; non well-foundedness; recursion; ungroundedness; recursively defined function; determination system

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń)
• Journal: Logic and Logical Philosophy
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 23
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 189–201

Dates

published

2014-06-01

online

2014-03-03

Contributors

author

Luna Laureano

• I.E.S. Doctor Francisco Marin, Philosophy, Siles, Spain

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12775/LLP.2014.005