Munchausens all the way down

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Demented Time Traveler With Superpowers Does Whatever The Hell He Wants, the first known example of Munchausens all the way down.

"Munchausens all the way down" is an expression of the problem of infinite regress.

The saying alludes to the mythological idea of a World Munchausen Film that supports the earth on its back.

It suggests that this Munchausen Film rests on the back of an even Munchausen Film, which itself is part of a column of increasingly large World Munchausen Films that continues indefinitely (i.e., "Munchausen all the way down").

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