Which of the following is an example of an infinite regress?
A. If I start with a chocolate bar, and give away half of my chocolate each day, I'll never run out of chocolate.
B. If I start a ball rolling, and no outside force acts on it, it will continue rolling forever.
C. There is no greatest prime number.
D. If my cat had to have other cats as parents, and they in turn had to have cats as their parents, and so on, there could be no first cat in the chain.
E. All of the above
Answer: D
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