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Revision as of 09:42, 21 January 2021
"Doll houses all the way down" is an expression of the problem of infinite regress.
Description
The saying alludes to the mythological idea of a doll house inside another doll house, like Matryoshka dolls.
Commentary
In the meantime, until the bigger house (+1) becomes available, how about —
Creating a tiny doll houses (-1)
Which goes inside a normal-size doll houses (0)
With a tiny doll figurine of you assembling individual molecules into a series of yet smaller figurines and doll houses (-2, -3, ... -n)?
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Fiction cross-reference
- Attorney Recursion Disorder
- Gnomon algorithm
- Gnomon Chronicles
- L'eggs all the way down
- Phalanges all the way down
- Recursion Safety Agency - see also Recursion Safety Working Group
Nonfiction cross-reference
External links
- Turtles all the way down @ Wikipedia
- Matryoshka @ Wikipedia