You missed the point.Skepdick wrote: ↑Tue Jul 13, 2021 11:03 amWell, infinite regress is a psychological phenomenon.Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Tue Jul 13, 2021 10:41 am You can go on with your infinite regression.
To insist on infinite regression as really real is illusory driven by psychology, note Hume's Problem of Cause and Effect reduced to constant conjunction then to customs and habits.
If psychological phenomena are "illusory" then so is all "motivation" and "impulses". And Philosophy.
I stated "to insist" infinite regression is really real is illusory since there is no way to confirm it at all.
This is hypostatizing, i.e. "treat or represent (something abstract) as a concrete reality."
An impulse like sexual can be verified with an empirical erection and verifying and justifying all the characteristics and properties belonging to what a 'sexual impulse' is.
There is no absolutely-absolute verification.Ohhh, I am all up for pragmatism! How do you verify verification?Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Tue Jul 13, 2021 10:41 am To be realistic and practical with infinite regression we have to fall back on what is verifiable and justifiable empirically and philosophically [critical philosophy], i.e. not for example a first cause or God.
As far as the OP is concern and for pragmatic reasons, what is 'philosophy' cannot be preceded with 'science'.
We have to fall back on the most reliable, i.e. from the scientific framework [we have gone tru this] and reinforced with critical thinking and morality & ethics.