Timeline for How to express a self-diminishing recursive property. Elegantly
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| Oct 5, 2018 at 13:16 | comment | added | Pam | Excellent choice @CWill. Glad you found a suitable term (and that more than one answer was useful!). | |
| Oct 5, 2018 at 13:03 | comment | added | CWill | Merriam-Webster: Vicious circle originally referred to a circular argument, that is, an argument that assumes the conclusion as one of its premises. ... end of the 18th century. Approximately 50 years later, vicious circle acquired the now more common "chain of events" sense as people began to think of the circle as a metaphorical circle rather than a circular argument. Today, vicious cycle is a common variant for the "chain of events" sense. Vicious spiral, in which the ill effects are cumulative as well as self-aggravating..." "Vicious" from first response, "spiral" from you. | |
| Oct 5, 2018 at 12:45 | history | answered | Pam | CC BY-SA 4.0 |