some arguments against infinite regress in islamic philosophy such as applied proof or argument of ones and thousands are based on the mathematical foundations and preliminaries. extraction and analysis of these preliminaries exposes mathematical nature of these arguments and shows that besides philosophical approach to these arguments should also look at them from perspective of mathematics. a...

infinite regress is among the most important philosophical issues which is imaginable in three forms: ascending, descending, and a combination of the two. philosophers have considered the invalidity of infinite regress as based on two conditions: successive order of regression individuals to each other and the potential conjunction of all individuals in existence. mīrdāmād believes that the con...

The truth conditions of (1) are expressed by (1'). The operation of comparison is triggered by the elements more, fewer, less, as and -er. One of these elements always has to be present in the part of the comparative preceding than or as. Therefore, I will refer to these elements as `comparative operators'. Comparative operators usually immediately precede the element of which the degree or qua...