<P> "Turtles all the way down" is an expression of the problem of infinite regress . The saying alludes to the mythological idea of a World Turtle that supports the earth on its back . It suggests that this turtle rests on the back of an even larger turtle, which itself is part of a column of increasingly large turtles that continues indefinitely (i.e., "turtles all the way down"). </P> <P> The exact origin of the phrase is uncertain . In the form "rocks all the way down", the saying appears as early as 1838 . References to the saying's mythological antecedents, the World Turtle and its counterpart the World Elephant, were made by a number of authors in the 17th and 18th centuries . This mythology is frequently assumed to have originated in ancient India and other Hinduist beliefs . </P> <P> The expression has been used to illustrate problems such as the "unmoved mover" paradox in cosmology and the regress argument in epistemology . </P>

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