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The Regress Argument

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Chains of instrumental value cannot run forever: each "for the sake of" must end at something valued for itself, or nothing in the chain was worth anything.

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Why the alarm? For work. Why work? For pay. Why pay? Somewhere the answers stop at a life — the classic regress, and its floor.

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