How Does The Logic Behind the Infinite Regress Work?

Infinite regress is like having a never-ending line of people passing a toy from one to another, there's no beginning or end.

Imagine you have a chain of links, and each link holds up the one before it. If you follow the chain, you might think, who started this? But if the chain goes on forever, with no start, that’s an infinite regress.

Think of a group of kids sitting in a circle passing a ball. Each kid passes it to the next one. If you ask, who started it? someone might say, “the kid next to me did!” But there's no first kid, the passing just keeps going forever.

Or imagine stacking blocks on top of each other. If every block is held up by the one below it, and that one is held up by another, and so on, if you go all the way down, there’s no bottom block. It goes on infinitely.

So, infinite regress means something keeps happening over and over again without a beginning or an end, just like your never-ending toy line!