Natural Order and Science

[Harris]

An infinite regress is a never ending chain, with no fixed beginning.

This could be an infinite series of nested realities, each one having a parent, and being in some way a manifestation of an aspect of the parent.

I'm not proposing this is the case, I just note that it is logically consistent. We don't know how realities other than this one operate (if there are any), or how their structure might work. Trying to model them on how this reality works is a baseless extrapolation and/or fallacy of composition. Our naive concepts of time and causality, again relating only to observing our own reality, do not equip us to make statements about goings on "outside" of it.

This would of course give rise to an "infinite number of realities". This intuitively seems impossible, but that is not an argument against reality.

This will probably always be unfalsifiable, making it as useless as any other unfalsifiable proposition.

Think of a fractal, that you can zoom in and out of as many times as you like. That's about the best way I could visualise it.

Infinite regress is a causal relationship transmitted through an indefinite number of terms in a series, with no term that begins the causal chain.

Any regress in the material world would end up in nothingness therefore, infinite regress in the material world is an impossibility and in the world of metaphysics infinite regress is also an impossibility because that simply shuts up the door through which one can arrive at a primary cause in the series of causes.

In case of infinite regress there can ultimately be no such things as valid means of knowledge because any attempt to demonstrate that a given procedure is a means of knowledge will either be a mere dogmatic assertion, or else be subject to circularity which eventually ends up in an emptiness.