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Wikipedia: List of lists of lists
- jolmg 9y agoI wished this was "Outline of outlines of outlines". I used to seek out those articles a lot in my free time when I was a student. It only made my hunger of knowledge grow. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_computer_programming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_computer_science https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_mathematics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_linguistics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_biology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_science etc.
- majewsky 9y agoAll in one place: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex/Outline_of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex/Outline_of
- cosinetau 9y agoThank you, O great Wikipedia hacker!
- cooper12 9y agoThere's also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Contents/Outlines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Contents/Outlines and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_outlines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_outlines
- josquindesprez 9y agoBetter yet, this iteratively deepening list of land-lake layers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_island#Islands_within_lakes_recursively https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_island#Islands_within_lak... This culminates in: The largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island is a nameless, approximately 4.0-hectare (10-acre) island at 66.687°N 70.479°W, situated within Nettilling Lake on Baffin Island, Canada.`
- killjoywashere 9y agosomeone should add a list of lists of genes and subindex them all the way down. Just ruin that page.
- agumonkey 9y agoso very lispy
- jefurii 9y agoThat is so meta.
- dredmorbius 9y agoWe clearly need a meta-article about meta articles.
- ahelwer 9y agoOne positive thing about Wikipedia lists: they provide a great way to explain Russell's Paradox. A lot of people have trouble with the concept of a set containing itself, but not with a web page linking to itself. So, we can imagine defining a Wikipedia page of the list of all lists which do not link to themselves, and then ask - does this list page contain a link to itself? Two cases: (1) The page does link to itself, in which case it is wrongly present in the list of lists which do not link to themselves. (2) The page does not link to itself, in which case it should be present in the list of lists which do not link to themselves. Since both cases result in a contradiction, this means we cannot define the list of all lists which do not link to themselves, and thus any formal language (now called "naive set theory") which allows us to define such a set is logically inconsistent. The solution to this paradox was to use a set of axioms (most commonly the Zermelo-Fraenkel axioms) which do not allow the construction of such a contradictory set, while also maintaining all the expressive power of naive set theory. To anyone interested in this stuff (plus Gödel) I highly recommend the graphic novel Logicomix.
- bograt 9y ago> The solution to this paradox was to use a set of axioms (most commonly the Zermelo-Fraenkel axioms) which do not allow the construction of such a contradictory set ... Or one can adopt a non-well-founded set theory that admits such a set.
- NVRM 9y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinker_paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinker_paradox ?
- ahelwer 9y agoNope, nothing to do with that.
- pmoriarty 9y agoMy favorite Wikipedia list is its list of unusual articles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_articles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_articles
- llccbb 9y agoReminds me (and I'm sure others had the thought) of the Awesome GitHub repo[0] which links to many of the other Awesome-* repos. [0] https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome
- paulhodge 9y agoA lot of these “lists of lists” are just “Something A-M” and “Something N-Z”. That’s just a paginated list!
- Hemminen66 9y agoListception? Haha I want to read this more.