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From: evan@txsil.lonestar.org (Evan Antworth)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: it's turtles all the way down
Message-ID: <458@txsil.lonestar.org>
Date: 17 Apr 91 17:33:03 GMT
Organization: Summer Institute of Linguistics (Dallas, TX)
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Thanks to all those who replied about the turtle story. As for the oldest
reference to the story, one person attributed to a myth, possibly Hindu.
The oldest published reference that anyone came up with is John Ross's PhD 
dissertation "Constraints on Variables in Syntax", MIT, 1968. 

--Evan