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#36 Peter Boghossian - Having Better Conversations About Philosophy

Within Reason

CHAPTER

The Infinite Regress

There's no reason to believe there are infinite paint brushes. So we can assign an extraordinarily low confidence value to that. Now, you know, you could go back and that's why I asked you about the parallel worlds. But the infinite explanatory recess, that's a different question. And it's not clear to me that it should be accepted by fiat.

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