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Latest revision as of 10:27, 8 January 2021

"Phalanges all the way down" (vernacular Toes all the way down) is an expression of the problem of infinite regress.

The saying alludes to the mythological idea of a World Toe that supports the flat foot of earth.

It suggests that this mighty Toe rests on the back of an even larger Tpe, which itself is part of a column of increasingly large world Toes that continues indefinitely (i.e., "Toes all the way down").

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