Philosophy

According to XKCD, you can start at any Wikipedia article, and by continually clicking on the first non-italic, un-parenthesised link in the article text, eventually end up at “Philosophy.”

Let’s see how that works:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Website

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-fiction

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrative

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italic_language

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_languages

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_family

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meaning_(philosophy_of_language)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle     <-----   Oh, so close!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeks

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_state

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_(polity)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_sciences

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbrella_term

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superset

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantity

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_(philosophy)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_philosophy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy     <-----   Achievement unlocked.

25 Steps from Wiki to Philosophy. Next step is to write a script to test the generalised case.

Or go out for a nice walk.

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