I recently heard someone say that no matter what Wikipedia entry you're reading, if you click on the first non-italicized link in the page, and do that on the next page, and so on, you always wind up at philosophy (but skipping links which merely refer to the root language of the entry word). Thought I'd give it a try on a couple of random things. Here are the results:
Food
Nutrient
Chemical Substance
Matter
Classical Physics
Paradigm Shift
Thomas Kuhn
Philosophy of Science
Philosophy (!)
Military Operation
Military Actions
State
Polity
Collective Identity
Belongingness
Emotion
Biology
Natural Science
Branches of Science
Science
Knowledge (which is part of Wiki's series on, you guessed it, Philosophy!)
So it worked for the first two things I tried. I certainly can't vouch that it always works, but it's interesting. I guess looked at one way, it's just common sense that this would happen, but still, this little game seems to tell us that nobody really knows anything.
Initial Entry: Potato
Root VegetableFood
Nutrient
Chemical Substance
Matter
Classical Physics
Paradigm Shift
Thomas Kuhn
Philosophy of Science
Philosophy (!)
Initial Entry: Battle of The Bulge
OffensiveMilitary Operation
Military Actions
State
Polity
Collective Identity
Belongingness
Emotion
Biology
Natural Science
Branches of Science
Science
Knowledge (which is part of Wiki's series on, you guessed it, Philosophy!)
So it worked for the first two things I tried. I certainly can't vouch that it always works, but it's interesting. I guess looked at one way, it's just common sense that this would happen, but still, this little game seems to tell us that nobody really knows anything.