[Foundation-l] "All human knowledge", by Jimmy Wales (?)

David Richfield davidrichfield at gmail.com
Fri Sep 16 18:20:54 UTC 2011


> And I think that there is a huge difference between "the sum of
> all..." and "all...". By the way, the traditional encyclopedias
> described themselves by "the sum of all..."

Can you explain this perceived difference?  Is the whole more than the
sum of its parts, so that the German claim is too ambitious for you,
or is it less than the sum of its parts, making the German claim too
modest?

-- 
David Richfield
e^(πi)+1=0



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