What the Tortoise Said to Achilles
Lewis Carroll's regress and why a rule of inference cannot be one more premise
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This rung already has its place in the Metalogic ladder and a fixed job in the order. The prose is what is missing. Writing it out of sequence would break the guarantee that nothing here uses a term before an earlier article defines it.
Will defineCarroll's regressrule-premise distinction
Assumesmodus ponensvalidityinference
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