Skip to content
ontologydriven
Sign out

Dictionary

Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

Ryle's regress en · PROPN

Etymology

Described by Gilbert Ryle.

Meanings

  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.

wikipedia: Gilbert Ryle