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Example sentences for "regress"

Lexicographically close words:
regnum; regrant; regranted; regrasp; regrating; regression; regressive; regressus; regret; regretable
  1. If we experienced a difficulty in our regress in connecting the last link of the chain with the causa causans, we experience the same or a counter-difficulty in our descent, in connecting the first link of the chain with the creative energy.

  2. We are not warranted in saying that because we cannot think out an endless regress of infinite antecedents, therefore we must assume a first cause.

  3. But again, what light is cast by this ambitious regress on the nature of the fountain-head.

  4. He contended that there is no definite law of progress: "The true law lies in the equal possibility of progress or regress for societies as for individuals.

  5. It is obvious that Rousseau and all other theorists of Regress would be definitely refuted if it could be proved by an historical investigation that in no period in the past had man's lot been happier than in the present.

  6. To the land without regress when Ishtar descended, Allatu beheld her and raged in her presence; Imprudently, boldly, did Ishtar attack her.

  7. Uddushu-namir, to land without regress, Seven doors of the land without regress be opened!

  8. Since Ishtar's descent to the land without regress The bull no more covers the cow, nor ass genders; No more in the street lies the man with the maiden.

  9. Aristotle declares that there cannot be a regress without end, demonstrating one conclusion from certain premisses, then demonstrating those premisses from others, and so on.

  10. From the utmost end of the heavens is his egress; and his compassing-regress is unto the utmost-ends of them: and none is hidd, from his heat.

  11. We may believe either in a self-existent God or in a self-existent world, and must believe in one or the other; we cannot believe in an infinite regress of causes.

  12. The alternatives of a self-existent cause and an infinite regress of causes are not, as some would represent, equally credible alternatives.

  13. We may go back as far as we please, but at every step and stage of the regress we must find ourselves confronted with the same question--the same alternative.

  14. Most of them will be shorter, however, and tend to regress toward the racial average.

  15. Whenever there is a tendency of the offspring of exceptional parents to regress toward the racial average, we talk of regression.

  16. Thus we get the point, or zero extension, as the spatial element, and an infinite regress or a vicious circle in the search for a whole.

  17. Also, progress in benevolence may co-exist with regress in fortitude and purity; progress in one point of morality with regress in another; progress in ethical judgment with regress in ethical practice.

  18. We have already said that progress in commerce may be regress in art or in religion or in morality.

  19. As soon as this sub-ordination is ignored in practice, regress takes the place of progress.

  20. And how should the semiluftars hinder the regress of spirits from the aorta upon each supervening diastole of the heart?

  21. Such reversion or regressive metamorphosis is as much a part of the organism's evolution as its previous progressive metamorphosis; and progress and regress both are equally the result of adaptation to environment.

  22. We are therefore left to face the fact that progress is only a possibility; and that amounts to saying that regress also is possible.

  23. Further, though reversion and regress may now be only occasional, it is certain that as the earth cools down they must become universal: the altered conditions of temperature, etc.

  24. For he maintains that, however far division be carried, the parts remain no less composite than the whole from which the regress has started.

  25. But as we are here dealing with possibilities only, the regress is in indefinitum, not in infinitum.

  26. But the duty of seeking it by way of such regress is none the less prescribed.

  27. It does not tell us whether or how the unconditioned exists, but how the empirical regress is to be carried out under the guidance of a mere Idea.

  28. The most that we can say is that a regress to the conditions, i.

  29. For though the parts are contained in the intuition of the whole, yet the whole division arises only through the regress that generates it.

  30. As the absolutely unconditioned can never be met with in experience, we know, indeed, beforehand that in the process of the regress the unconditioned will never be reached.

  31. And with this regress we are brought to the real crux of the whole question--the reconciliation of this phenomenalism with the conditions of our self-consciousness.

  32. Idea, the regress in the series of conditions of any given conditioned.

  33. Science says: Fire-mist, or an infinite regress of causes.

  34. Theology says: Granted; but this infinite regress demands for its explanation the belief in God.

  35. For the member at which we have discontinued our division still admits a regress to many more parts contained in the object.

  36. For it remains as a permanent quantity, whether I deny the infinite or the finite regress in the series of its phenomena.

  37. Now, as this regress is infinite, all the members (parts) to which it attains must be contained in the given whole as an aggregate.

  38. In this case the regress could never be cogitated as complete; or, if this was the case, a member really conditioned was falsely regarded as a primal member, consequently as unconditioned.

  39. The division of the parts of the whole (subdivisio or decompositio) is a regress in the series of these conditions.

  40. The division is contained only in the progressing decomposition--in the regress itself, which is the condition of the possibility and actuality of the series.

  41. We may go back as far as we please, but, at every step and stage of the regress we must find ourselves confronted with the same question, the same alternative--intelligent purpose or colossal chance.

  42. The proof of the existence of an unmoved mover in Aristotle and Maimonides is based upon the impossibility of a regress to infinity.

  43. Motion proves a mover, and to avoid an infinite regress we must posit an unmoved mover, that is, a first mover who is not himself moved at the same time.

  44. But since an infinite regress in things existing not in themselves but in other things is impossible, we are forced to admit the reality of a mode of being which exists in itself--viz.

  45. Nor are we more successful when we attempt to conceive an infinite regress of time, and an infinite series of dependent existences in time.

  46. When we dream of conceiving an infinite regress of time, says Sir W.

  47. And as I have said or implied, to the reflective mind regress is impossible, it cannot go back upon itself, and with due tenderness and gratitude it has set behind it the things of its unreflective childhood.


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