Ryle's regress

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Etymology

Described by Gilbert Ryle.

Proper noun

Ryle's regress

  1. (philosophy) 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.
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