English Explanatory Dictionary

Ryle's regress

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. 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.

Word forms

Ryle's regress

Etymology

Described by Gilbert Ryle.

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