Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- intransitive v. To go back; move backward.
- intransitive v. To return to a previous, usually worse or less developed state.
- intransitive v. To have a tendency to approach or go back to a statistical mean.
- transitive v. Psychology To induce a state of regression in.
- n. The act of going or coming back; return.
- n. Passage back; reentry.
- n. The act of reasoning backward from an effect to a cause.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression.
- n. The power or liberty of passing back.
- v. To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.
- v. To perform a regression on an explanatory variable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression. “The progress or regress of man”.
- n. The power or liberty of passing back.
- intransitive v. To go back; to return to a former place or state.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To go back; return to a former place or state.
- In astronomy, to move from east toward west.
- n. Passage back; return.
- n. The power or liberty of returning or passing back.
- n. In Scots law, reëntry.
- n. In canon law. See access, 7.
- n. In logic, the passage in thought from effect to cause.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. the reasoning involved when you assume the conclusion is true and reason backward to the evidence
- v. go back to a statistical means
- v. go back to bad behavior
- n. returning to a former state
- v. get worse or fall back to a previous condition
- v. 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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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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Different as these views were, they represent the idea of regress; they imply a condemnation of the tendencies of actual social development and recommend a return to simpler and more primitive conditions.
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