Lewis Carroll’s regress and the presuppositional structure of arguments

Linguistics and Philosophy 45 (1):1-38 (2021)
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This essay argues that the main lesson of Lewis Carroll's Regress is that arguments are constitutively presuppositional.

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10.1007/s10988-020-09320-9

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