They work their way towards the realization that they want an "infinite tower" of applications of `h`, except they don't really need an infinite tower, but rather just a finite tower whose height can't be bounded in advance. This is essentially the observation that they need a fixed point for `h`.
They work their way towards the realization that they want an "infinite tower" of applications of `h`, except they don't really need an infinite tower, but rather just a finite tower whose height can't be bounded in advance. This is essentially the observation that they need a fixed point for `h`.