Re: Turtles all the way down?

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From: Stephen Helmreich
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 15:14

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John Robert Ross uses it as the Fragestellung of his 1967 Dissertation
on "Constraints on Variables in Syntax" and notes that "The anecdote
is told of William James.  I have been unable to find any published
reference to it, so it may be that I have attributed it to the wrong
man, or that it is apocryphal."

			Steve Helmreich

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