I happened upon a new twitter friend's blog the other day and read something that had me very intrigued. According to an XKCD comic (I couldn't find the exact one, sadly), if you follow the first non-word-origin link in any new Wikipedia article indefinitely, you will always end up on the entry for philosophy. Why does this tickle me so? Of course, I had to try it. I started with a word I love, "author," and this is the path that took me to philosophy.Author, copyright law, exclusive rights, Anglo-Saxon law, Anglo-Saxon, Germanic tribes, ethnolinguist, linguistics, scientific, knowledge, facts, philosophy.The lesson here is that even science is merely philosophy. However, I can't help but wonder how different this path might be if Wikipedia was not originally a Western model of categorization.If anyone else would like to try this game, I'd love to hear what your path to philosophy is in the comments. Happy bread-crumbing!
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