(derogatory, politics) A characterization of the left which suggests that it paradoxically holds reactionary views by its tolerance of illiberal principles and ideologies (such as extremist Islamism) for the sake of multiculturalism and cultural relativism.

plural of regressive leftist

(neologism, derogatory, politics) A member of the regressive left.

(neologism, derogatory, politics) Characteristic of the regressive left.

(derogatory, politics, rare) The politics of the regressive left.

(statistics) The phenomenon by which extreme examples from any set of data are likely to be followed by examples which are less extreme; a tendency towards the average of any sample. For example, the offspring of two very tall individuals tend to be tall, but closer to the average (mean) than either of their parents.

(logic) A regress into an infinite sequence of propositions in an attempt to found the truth of the proposition Pᵢ on the truth of the proposition Pᵢ₊₁.

(philosophy) The paradoxical situation whereby, if one accepts the cognitivist theory that every action is preceded by a thought, each thought must also be preceded by another thought, and so thinking could apparently never begin.

(data mining) A data-analysis method that recursively partitions data into sets each of which are simply modeled using regression methods. / A classification and regression tree.

(software engineering) Testing a program after a modification to ensure that areas that should not be affected by the update behave as they did in previous versions.