Re: Turtles all the way down?

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From: H. M. Hubey
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 21:34

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math0@menudo.uh.edu (Siemion Fajtlowicz) writes:

>In article <SWRA01.94Sep27121133@cs19.cs.aukuni.ac.nz>,
>Stephen David  Wray <swra01@cs.aukuni.ac.nz> wrote:
>>
>>> Turtles all the way down?
>>
>>Yes -- and it's turtles all the way up too :)
>>
>>(can anyone tell me where I got this quote from...
>> I'd like to be able to give a reference.)

>From Hawking's "Brief History of Time".
>Are you a former UH student? i.e who I think you are?

Is the full story of the old lady there too, or is it just
the punchline?


--
						-- Mark---
....we must realize that the infinite in the sense of an infinite totality, 
where we still find it used in deductive methods, is an illusion. Hilbert,1925

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