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If an instance of circular reasoning is defined objectively then it has no break, and infinite regress is a form of circular reasoning. One might as well ask where a circle begins.

If one wants to know how there is a here & now: a determinate point, this needs to be considered subjectively because the here & now is part of subjectivity, and is finitely bound by birth and death.

The mistake is to try to interpret the subjective here & now in terms of objective ideas (e.g. circles)—ideas created from subjectivity; "reflected light" as Heidegger puts it:

Dasein is inclined to fall back upon its world (the world in which it is) and to interpret itself in terms of that world by its reflected light, … GA 2, H. 21

If an instance of circular reasoning is defined objectively then it has no break, and infinite regress is a form of circular reasoning. One might as well ask where a circle begins.

If one wants to know how there is a here & now: a determinate point, this needs to be considered subjectively because the here & now is part of subjectivity, and is finitely bound by birth and death.

The mistake is to try to interpret the subjective here & now in terms of objective ideas (e.g. circles)—ideas created from subjectivity; "reflected light" as Heidegger puts it:

Dasein is inclined to fall back upon its world (the world in which it is) and to interpret itself in terms of that world by its reflected light, … GA 2, H. 21

Thus one can ground a determinate point in an otherwise apparently infinite regress.

If an instance of circular reasoning is defined objectively then there is no break, and infinite regress is a form of circular reasoning. One might as well ask where a circle begins.

If one wants to know how there is a here & now: a determinate point, this needs to be considered subjectively because the here & now is part of subjectivity, and is finitely bound by birth and death.

The mistake is to try to interpret the subjective here & now in terms of objective ideas, those created from subjectivity; "reflected light" as Heidegger puts it:

Dasein is inclined to fall back upon its world (the world in which it is) and to interpret itself in terms of that world by its reflected light, … GA 2, H. 21

If an instance of circular reasoning is defined objectively then it has no break, and infinite regress is a form of circular reasoning. One might as well ask where a circle begins.

If one wants to know how there is a here & now: a determinate point, this needs to be considered subjectively because the here & now is part of subjectivity, and is finitely bound by birth and death.

The mistake is to try to interpret the subjective here & now in terms of objective ideas (e.g. circles)—ideas created from subjectivity; "reflected light" as Heidegger puts it:

Dasein is inclined to fall back upon its world (the world in which it is) and to interpret itself in terms of that world by its reflected light, … GA 2, H. 21

If an instance of circular reasoning is defined objectively then there is no break, and infinite regress is a form of circular reasoning. One might as well ask where a circle begins.

If one wants to know how there is a here & now: a determinate point, this needs to be considered subjectively because the here & now is part of subjectivity, which is finitely bound by birth and death.

The mistake is to try to interpret the subjective here & now in terms of objective ideas, those created from subjectivity; "reflected light" as Heidegger puts it:

Dasein is inclined to fall back upon its world (the world in which it is) and to interpret itself in terms of that world by its reflected light, … GA 2, H. 21

If an instance of circular reasoning is defined objectively then there is no break, and infinite regress is a form of circular reasoning. One might as well ask where a circle begins.

If one wants to know how there is a here & now: a determinate point, this needs to be considered subjectively because the here & now is part of subjectivity, and is finitely bound by birth and death.

The mistake is to try to interpret the subjective here & now in terms of objective ideas, those created from subjectivity; "reflected light" as Heidegger puts it:

Dasein is inclined to fall back upon its world (the world in which it is) and to interpret itself in terms of that world by its reflected light, … GA 2, H. 21