Whenever the members of a large group of people appear much more similar to each other than the members of your own group, you're probably not thinking clearly. (Example: men, women, whites, asians, gays, conservatives, liberals, psychologists, tech workers, wealthy, poor...)
I'd rather stay informally here and say that an infinite regress happens when a recursion (a self referencing function) has no stopping condition.
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So, is a stopping condition fundamental to a recursion? If not, does recursion equals infinite regress?
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No, a stopping condition is not fundamental, but if you make a recursive definition you usually make sure to provide one, because otherwise it's turtles all the way down.
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