As the idea only is apprehended, and there is consequently no necessity to assume something to apprehend the Self which witnesses the idea (is conscious of the idea), there results no regressus ad infinitum.
And because in consequence of samavâya being admitted a regressus in infinitum results from parity of reasoning.
The hypothesis of a beginningless series of mental impressions would lead only to a baseless regressus ad infinitum, sublative of the entire phenomenal world, and would in no way establish your position.
But an assumption of that kind would lead us into a regressus in infinitum, because in order to explain how the whole abides in certain given parts we should always have to assume further parts[297].
This is the regressus in indefinitum, which, as it determines no quantity in the object, is clearly enough distinguishable from the regressus in infinitum.
These new relations are but two more entities which themselves require to be hitched in turn by four still newer relations--so behold the vertiginous regressus ad infinitum in full career.
Since a regressusad infinitum is deemed absurd, the notion that relations come 'between' their terms must be given up.
And because owing to the acknowledgment of samavâya, there results a regressus in infinitum from equality.
For this reason the charge of a regressus in infinitum and a logical seesaw (see above, p.
For if that manifestation requires another manifestation (to account for it) we are driven into a regressus in infinitum.
If you reply 'another ajnâna,' we are led into a regressusin infinitum.
Nor could it be maintained that the Lord can be assumed to be 'embodied' by means of some other body; for this leads us into a regressus in infinitum.
In neither case--the regressus in infinitum, nor theregressus in indefinitum, is the series of conditions to be considered as actually infinite in the object itself.
Such a regress is, therefore, the regressus in indefinitum, which, as not determining a quantity in the object, is clearly distinguishable from the regressus in infinitum.
The assumption of the freedom of the will leads to an analogous regressus in infinitum, in which the question, "Willst thou thy volition?
But, again, self-consciousness can never be realized, because it involves a regressus in infinitum.
According to the fourth, it is impossible to escape from the regressus in infinitum by making a hypothesis the starting point, as the Dogmatics attempt to do.
The one based upon hypothesis is 168 illustrated by the Dogmatics, when in the regressus in infinitum they begin from something that they do not found on reason, but which they simply take for granted without proof.
How again can one come to a right conclusion about the regressus ad infinitum of cause and effect (hetu and phala)?
If the specific individualities of a cow should require one common factor to hold them together, then these should require another and that another, and we have a regressus ad infinitum.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "regressus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
