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muriel_volestrangler

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17. It actually predates Terry Pratchett - by a surprising amount

Reply to love_katz (Reply #9)

Tue Jul 4, 2023, 05:30 PM

Jul 2023

I first heard it as told as a reply from "a little old lday" to a lecturing philosopher, Bertrand Russell - taking the place of William James here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down#Modern_form

But that has "rocks all the way down" in 1838, and "tortoises all the way down" in 1854

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