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From: sdbeck@mac.cc.macalstr.edu
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: it's turtles all the way down
Message-ID: <1991Apr20.050348.261@mac.cc.macalstr.edu>
Date: 20 Apr 91 05:03:47 -0600
References: <458@txsil.lonestar.org>
Organization: Macalester College
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In article <458@txsil.lonestar.org>, evan@txsil.lonestar.org (Evan Antworth) writes:
> 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

Well, I know the origin of this one is in Indian mythology. However, I do *not*
know if it is Indian or Native American. If it really matters, I can find out,
although I seem to recall from my Indian Philosophies class last semester that
it is, indeed, Hindu.

Dan Becker
Macalester College
St. Paul MN