21 steps to philosophy

A XKCD strip had an image text rollover which stated:

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".

This site has a little script which lets you test it out (I have included a sample below) - but it is fun doing it yourself.  Follow the instructions above and you will see that it really does work.

Mind you - it does not always work - there are some pages which result in an endless loop - which may constitute philosophy in its own right!

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xkcd wikipedia steps to philosophy

(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")

Start from article: http://en.wikipedia.org.wiki/

sutherland

1. sutherland
2. registration_county
3. great_britain
4. island
5. continent
6. landmass
7. land
8. earth
9. planet
10. orbit
11. physics
12. natural_science
13. science
14. knowledge
15. information
16. sequence
17. mathematics
18. quantity
19. property_(philosophy)
20. modern_philosophy
21. philosophy

21 steps to philosophy