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Stanford Encyclopedia Retires Its Entry on Holes
Original: Holes (1996-2025) Article URL: https:// plato.stanford.edu/entries/hol es/ Comments URL: https:// news.ycombinator.com/i
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy has retired its long-running entry on holes, marking its lifespan as 1996 to 2025. The entry, a philosophical survey of whether holes are real objects or mere absences, was first published when the encyclopedia launched. Readers are noting the end of one of the reference work's oldest articles and debating why a seemingly whimsical topic warranted nearly three decades of scholarly upkeep.
Why now: The retirement of a quirky, decades-old philosophy entry strikes readers as both amusing and a notable marker of the encyclopedia's evolution.
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