Over at XKCD, Randall posits an interesting theory:
Wikipedia Trivia: If you take any article, click on the first link in the article text not in parentheses or italics, and then repeat, you will eventually end up at “Philosophy.”
So let’s try, starting with, say, K-pop:
K-pop -> musical genre -> genre -> literature -> fiction -> narrative -> Latin -> Italic Language -> Indo-European Languages-> language family -> language -> communication -> meaning (philosophy of language) (oh so close) -> Aristotle -> Greeks (doht! getting colder) -> nation -> sovereign state -> state -> social sciences -> umbrella term -> superset -> mathematics -> quantity -> property -> modern philosophy – philosophy
It works! I was going to try two or three more terms, but that was way too much work.
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