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Regress

noun

The reasoning involved when you assume the conclusion is true and reason backward to the evidence. Synonym: reasoning backward.

Returning to a former state. Synonyms: regression, retrogression, retroversion, reversion.

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"Regress" Quotes from Famous Books

... altogether, and even form becomes secondary. The last step is taken by Rembrandt, and even color is subordinated to light-and-shade, which exists alone in a world of brownness. At every step there has been progress, but there has also been regress. Perhaps the greatest balance of gain against loss and the nearest approach to a complete art of painting were with the great Venetians. The transformation is still going on, and in our own day we have conquered some corners of the ...

— Artist and Public - And Other Essays On Art Subjects • Kenyon Cox

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... Civilisation has been organised here and there, now and then, up to a certain point; there have been eras of rapid progress, but how can we be sure that these are not episodes, themselves also fortuitous? For growth has been followed by decay, progress by regress; can it be said that history, authorises the conclusion that reason will ever gain such an ascendancy that the play of chance will no longer be able to thwart her will? Is such a conclusion more than a hope, unsanctioned by the data of past experience, merely one ...

— The Idea of Progress - An Inquiry Into Its Origin And Growth • J. B. Bury

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Words linked to "Regress" : turn, retrogress, reversal, relapse, change by reversal, decline, retrovert, reverse, drop off, fall behind, recede, retrogression, resile, recuperate, logical thinking, go back, reasoning, recover, change, lose, progress, abstract thought, worsen, regression