What is an Infinite Regress Argument?

Abstract

According to philosophers’ linguistic practice of the past many centuries, certain propositions entail infinite regresses (e.g., event2 caused event1, event3 caused event2, ad infinitum), and most infinite regresses are used as premises to support various conclusions. Since only propositions can be entailed or used as premises, it follows that infinite regresses are propositions. We will see in this book that they are a special kind of proposition, and that there are a variety of infinite regresses.