Concept

Turtles all the way down

Overview

expression of the problem of infinite regress

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Turtles all the way down

• Xenophanes
• Lawrence Krauss
• Peter D. Klein

Related ideas

• Foundationalism
• Johann Gottlieb Fichte
• An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
• Jesuits
• John Locke
• Informal fallacy
• Axiomatic system
• Stephen Hawking
• Metaphor
• Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
• Infinite regress
• Unmoved mover
• Bertrand Russell
• Henry David Thoreau
• Begging the question
• Gödel's incompleteness theorems
• Contradiction
• David Hume
• William James
• Epistemology
• Why I Am Not a Christian

Place in the tradition

Part of Fallibilism.

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