TY - JOUR ID - 35746 TI - Study of Three Conditions of Impossible Regress JO - Philosophy and Kalam JA - JITP LA - en SN - 2008-9422 AU - Khademzade, Vahid AU - Saeidi Mehr, Mohammad AD - PhD.C. in Islamic Philosophy at Tarbiat Modarres University AD - Associate Professor in Islamic Philosophy at Tarbiat Modarres University Y1 - 2013 PY - 2013 VL - 46 IS - 2 SP - 41 EP - 59 KW - infinity KW - regress KW - actuality KW - coming together KW - Succession DO - 10.22059/jitp.2013.35746 N2 - Some philosophers have tried to justify the existence of infinity in collections such as chains of numbers, temporal contingent and abstract souls by three conditions:  actuality, coming together and succession and protected mentioned collections against arguments of absurdity of the infinite regress. In this paper, we show that appealing to mentioned conditions to exit chains of numbers, temporal contingent and abstract souls from circle of actual infinity is not successful. Inseparability of numbers and multiplicity in the first condition, lack of appropriate meaning of the term "coming together" in the second one and consideration of limitations of human minds in justification of the third condition cause these conditions to encounter serious challenges. UR - https://jitp.ut.ac.ir/article_35746.html L1 - https://jitp.ut.ac.ir/article_35746_1d784807b9e9e02d895e2cc1ae439368.pdf ER -