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regress

verb backslide, fall again into, fall back, fall behind, go back, move backward, pass back, recede, relapse, retrocede, retrograde, retrogress, return, reverse, revert, turn back

REGRESS. Returning; going back opposed to ingress. (q.v.)

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Klein claim that the infinite regresses of propositions are not necessarily absurd, at least not all of them.

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With the surprise appearance of his friend, Huck regresses to Tom's childish world of fantasy schemes, turning his back on the adulthood hard-won on the raft.

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However, if the order regresses and we begin clamping down on what we can do or where.