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It elephants all the way down! Russian dolls and separation of the disciplines
urbandekay @urbandekay (18278) 8 Sep 12
Bertrand Russell was once giving a public lecture. To illustrate the folly of infinite regression he described the notion of the world as a flat plate supported on the back of an elephant; pointing out that really explained...
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particle physics
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