Phalanges all the way down

"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").

Fiction cross-reference

• Attorney Recursion Disorder
• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles
• Legs all the way down

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Recursion (nonfiction)

External links

• Turtles all the way down @ Wikipedia