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InMetaphysics Γ, Ch. 4, Aristotle speaks of both infinite regress and question-begging, but does not explicitly relate them. We get the impression that he thinks that to use one of these arguments to avoid the other is to jump from the frying-pan into the fire. This relationship is illustrated in terms of the ignorant belief that everything can be proved, and of attempts to prove the Law of Noncontradiction.
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Johnstone, H.W. Question-begging and infinite regress. Argumentation 8, 291–293 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00711195
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00711195