In a word, no. However, an extremely high percentage do! In fact, 9 out of 10 randomly selected articles will take you back to Philosophy eventually. Sadly, it seems that several thousand of articles don't ever make it all the way back to Philosophy. The other 10% is comprised mostly of infinitely loops and pages without links... though we did have to adjust our code the day the project was due to take dead links into account, so there are a few of those as well!
We're currently trying to show the paths to Philosophy we've found, but unfortunately, they take up a gigabyte, so we can't show them all here. If you're got any ideas about how we can show you them, please e-mail us using the addresses on the "Contact" page.
In order to view a sampling of the paths to philosophy from article titles, we've created the widget below. Enter in any term that you would expect to find in Wikipedia, and if it is a valid term and does not result in an infinite loop or is a dead link, then you can see the exact number of steps it takes to get from that article to "Philosophy", and the articles it goes through to get there. This widget in particular will only show articles that take less than 28 steps to get to "Philosophy" as we had to limit the number in order to save space in our online databases. According to this output, of approximately 4.2 million articles, 3.2 million definitely go back to Philosophy in less than 28 steps. According to other findings, the percentage should be much higher, but the percentage will change depending on the state of Wikipedia at that time. For example, 'knowledge' is a popular hub to reach to get to philosophy, but at one point the page was changed so that it (as well as thousands other links) did not end up going back to philosophy. We ourselves actually changed this back, switching around the order of the links, and proved our theory that the change of just one popular hub can change results drastically.
Have fun playing around with the widget! Try testing the results against Wikipedia now.
Some suggestions: Carbohydrate, brain, disposition, magic, etc.
We're currently trying to show the paths to Philosophy we've found, but unfortunately, they take up a gigabyte, so we can't show them all here. If you're got any ideas about how we can show you them, please e-mail us using the addresses on the "Contact" page.
In order to view a sampling of the paths to philosophy from article titles, we've created the widget below. Enter in any term that you would expect to find in Wikipedia, and if it is a valid term and does not result in an infinite loop or is a dead link, then you can see the exact number of steps it takes to get from that article to "Philosophy", and the articles it goes through to get there. This widget in particular will only show articles that take less than 28 steps to get to "Philosophy" as we had to limit the number in order to save space in our online databases. According to this output, of approximately 4.2 million articles, 3.2 million definitely go back to Philosophy in less than 28 steps. According to other findings, the percentage should be much higher, but the percentage will change depending on the state of Wikipedia at that time. For example, 'knowledge' is a popular hub to reach to get to philosophy, but at one point the page was changed so that it (as well as thousands other links) did not end up going back to philosophy. We ourselves actually changed this back, switching around the order of the links, and proved our theory that the change of just one popular hub can change results drastically.
Have fun playing around with the widget! Try testing the results against Wikipedia now.
Some suggestions: Carbohydrate, brain, disposition, magic, etc.
most common paths to philosophy
Below, we can see the most common paths to philosophy.
Below are the topic 5 paths to philosophy- in fact, the majority of articles make it to Philosophy following one of these five paths. (We're specifically referring to the last two articles in the rankings, but we include a few extra if they're particularly popular.)
(1) "LITERATURE", "POLEMIC", "ARGUMENT", "LOGIC", "PHILOSOPHY"
(2) "CONCEPT", "METAPHYSICS", "PHILOSOPHY"
(3) "MODERN PHILOSOPHY", "PHILOSOPHY"
(4) "ETHICS", "PHILOSOPHY"
(5) "MODERN ART", "PHILOSOPHY"
Below are a sampling of the many last nodes on the way to philosophy:
(1) "LITERATURE", "POLEMIC", "ARGUMENT", "LOGIC", "PHILOSOPHY"
(2) "CONCEPT", "METAPHYSICS", "PHILOSOPHY"
(3) "MODERN PHILOSOPHY", "PHILOSOPHY"
(4) "ETHICS", "PHILOSOPHY"
(5) "MODERN ART", "PHILOSOPHY"
Below are a sampling of the many last nodes on the way to philosophy:
"NEO-KANTIANISM"
"GERMAN PHILOSOPHY" "CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY" "GOOD FAITH""WILLIAM JAMES" "ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY" "MARXIST PHILOSOPHY" "AFTERLIFE" |
"ONTOLOGY"
"GERMAN ROMANTICISM" "PHILOSOPHY OF SPACE AND TIME" "CLASSICAL ELEMENT" "QUALIA" "PHILOSOPHICAL LOGIC" "ALVIN GOLDMAN" "PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS" "BASAVA" |
"PROPOSITION"
"ONTOLOGY" "ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY" "PHILOSOPHY OF HEALTHCARE" "EPISTEMOLOGY" "LIAR PARADOX" "CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE" "PLATONISM" "FRENCH PHILOSOPHY" |
"CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY"
"AESTHETICS" "HUMANISM" "EUGENICS" "EPICUREANISM" "CORRUPTION" "PHILOSOPHY OF TECHNOLOGY" "FREETHOUGHT" "PHILOSOPHY OF LAW" "BARBARA FORREST" |
"PHILOSOPHY OF SPACE AND TIME"
"GERMAN ROMANTICISM""ANTHONY BEAVERS" "META-ETHICS" "NOMINALISM" "SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY" "NORMATIVE ETHICS" "WESTERN PHILOSOPHY" "DAYS OF WAR, NIGHTS OF LOVE" |