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The attempt to justify our beliefs leads to the regress problem. We briefly recount the problem’s history and recall the two traditional solutions, foundationalism and coherentism, before turning to infinitism. According to infinitists, the regress problem is not a genuine difficulty, since infinite chains of reasons are not as troublesome as they may seem. A comparison with causal chains suggests that a proper assessment of infinitistic ideas requires that the concept of justification be made clear.
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Atkinson, D., Peijnenburg, J. (2017). The Regress Problem. In: Fading Foundations. Synthese Library, vol 383. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58295-5_1
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