Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To return to a previous, usually worse or less developed state.
- intransitive verb To have a tendency to approach or go back to a statistical mean.
- intransitive verb To move backward or away from a reference point; recede.
- intransitive verb To induce a state of regression in.
- noun The act of regressing, especially the returning to a previous, usually worse or less developed state.
- noun The act of reasoning backward from an effect to a cause or of continually applying a process of reasoning to its own results.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To go back; return to a former place or state.
- In astronomy, to move from east toward west.
- noun Passage back; return.
- noun The power or liberty of returning or passing back.
- noun In Scots law, reëntry.
- noun In canon law. See
access , 7. - noun In logic, the passage in thought from effect to cause.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression. “The progress or
regress of man”. - noun The power or liberty of passing back.
- intransitive verb To go back; to return to a former place or state.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression.
- noun The power or liberty of passing back.
- verb intransitive To move backwards to an earlier stage; to
devolve . - verb transitive, statistics To perform a
regression on an explanatory variable.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the reasoning involved when you assume the conclusion is true and reason backward to the evidence
- verb go back to a statistical means
- verb go back to bad behavior
- noun returning to a former state
- verb get worse or fall back to a previous condition
- verb go back to a previous state
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Examples
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The problem with an infinite regress is that it is a fallacious attempt to make an unsound argument support itself.
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An infinite regress is no longer an easy, simple, or adequate explanation.
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Infinite regress is just another metaphysical conclusion, no different that gods/God.
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To monumentalize this observation into a method of reading would be to regress from the rigor exhibited by Shelley which is exemplary because it refuses to be generalized into a system.
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May the lake once again regress to its most pleasant state and leave us the hell alone.
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Sir John walked there some time, expecting the reappearance of the knight, whom he intended to assist in leading home; but after an hour, finding no signs of regress from the palace, and thinking his father might be wondering at his delay, he turned his steps towards his own lodgings.
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I haven't seen Heidegger's history of philosophy described as a regress before, but I can see the narrative, that man was in the Garden of Beyng, then Plato drank from the tree of metaphysical kool-aid and we've been dealing with that original sin since.
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I haven't seen Heidegger's history of philosophy described as a regress before, but I can see the narrative, that man was in the Garden of Beyng, then Plato drank from the tree of metaphysical kool-aid and we've been dealing with that original sin since.
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But she said that she started to regress, which is often -- also a hallmark of many people with autism.
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The main argument for foundationalism is called the regress argument.
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