Human Knowledge and the Infinite Regress of Reasons.

Klein, P. (1999). Human Knowledge and the Infinite Regress of Reasons. Philosophy of Science.

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Journal article

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Year

1999

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https://doi.org/10.1111/0029-4624.33.s13.14verified

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• Infinite Regress
  • … self-similar at each level. Termination options: foundational stop (some belief is basic, needs no further justification—foundationalism, Chisholm ), circularity (beliefs mutually support each other in a web—coherentism, BonJour ), endless continuation (the chain of justification extends forever—infinitism, Klein
• Inversion
  • … using backward-chaining from goal as inversion of forward-search. Wertheimer 1945 Productive Thinking on gestalt restructuring uses inversion as perceptual reorganization. Pre-mortem analysis (Klein 1999) inverts temporal perspective: instead of "how can we succeed?" ask "imagine failure; why did it happen?"

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