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Regress   Listen
noun
Regress  n.  
1.
The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression. "The progress or regress of man".
2.
The power or liberty of passing back.






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"Regress" Quotes from Famous Books



... regress that has to be gone through in order to arrive at the root matter awaiting to be solved destroys the root and is hence vicious, whereas if the root is saved there is no harm in a regress though one may not be ...
— A History of Indian Philosophy, Vol. 1 • Surendranath Dasgupta

... progress however, will be dependent on the selection principle, and the hereditary percentage, or centgener power or breeding ability, must be determined in each generation anew. Without this the race would soon regress to its former condition. ...
— Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation • Hugo DeVries

... the former is only given through the latter. But we find in the case of phenomena a particular limitation of the mode in which conditions are given, that is, through the successive synthesis of the manifold of intuition, which must be complete in the regress. Now whether this completeness is sensuously possible, is a problem. But the idea of it lies in the reason—be it possible or impossible to connect with the idea adequate empirical conceptions. Therefore, as in the absolute totality of the regressive synthesis of the manifold in a phenomenon ...
— The Critique of Pure Reason • Immanuel Kant



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