"it's turtles all they way down"

[Fred Shapiro]

On Sat, 18 Nov 2006, Arnold M. Zwicky wrote:

> Haj Ross (J.R. Ross) tells the turtles version (attributed to William
> James)  at the beginning of his 1967 Ph.D. dissertation, Constraints
> on Variables in Syntax.

I haven't verified this, but I am told that it is the "rocks all the way
down" version that James recounts in _The Will to Believe_.

Fred Shapiro


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