Question
This thinker introduced the hypothesis that the world and our memories of the past were created five minutes ago. The question “who shaves the barber?” summarizes a puzzle that this thinker used to illustrate a complication of Gottlob Frege’s (“FRAY-guhz”) Basic Law V (“five”). This thinker imagined an undetectable object orbiting between the Earth and Mars in an example intended to shift the burden of proof to theists, his namesake (*) “teapot.” This thinker discovered that the set containing all sets that are not members of themselves causes a paradox for naïve set theory, leading him to use type theory to explain mathematics in his magnum opus. For 10 points, what author of Why I Am Not a Christian collaborated with Alfred Whitehead on Principia Mathematica? ■END■
Summary
2023 PACE NSC | 06/10/2023 | Y | 35 | 100% | 77% | 0% | 58.00 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Aneesh Swaminathan | Plymouth | Waukee | 15 | 0 |
Diane Buffet-Mogul | Mercer County | Thomas Jefferson D | 18 | 0 |
Jiming Chen | Hinsdale Central | Innovation Academy B | 22 | 20 |
Charles Heydt | Midtown | Maggie Walker A | 27 | 0 |
Joy An | Choate Rosemary Hall | Solon | 28 | 20 |
Russell Dillak | Northmont B | St. Mark's | 30 | 20 |
Arjun Kala | University Lab | Stevenson B | 30 | 20 |
Chris Yoo | Thomas Jefferson B | Irvington A | 30 | 20 |
Sam Macchi | Belmont | Maggie Walker C | 35 | 20 |
Yashwanth Bajji | Troy | Thomas Jefferson C | 38 | 20 |
Aeres Zhou | Detroit Country Day | Saint Joseph | 38 | 20 |
Sam Konkel | Johns Creek A | Parkway West | 40 | 20 |
Luke Snyder | Rockford Auburn B | New Brighton | 41 | 0 |
Camden Williams | Mexico | Woodland | 47 | 20 |
Ian Lu | Hunter A | Norman | 48 | 20 |
Charles Young | Barrington A | Cincinnati Hills Christian | 48 | 20 |
Omar Hamid | Dunbar | Chattahoochee A | 49 | 20 |
Sinecio Morales | Rockford Auburn A | John Adams A | 49 | 20 |
David Bertolasi | Belvidere | Walter Payton | 49 | 20 |
Rohan Dalal | Johns Creek B | Winston Churchill A | 49 | 20 |
Ali Hamzeh | Kinkaid | Moberly | 51 | 20 |
Moxie Strom | Hunter B | Chattahoochee B | 51 | 20 |
Will Carstens | Detroit Catholic Central A | Innovation Academy A | 51 | 20 |
Elliott Lee | Thomas Jefferson A | John Adams B | 52 | 20 |
Aatreyo Bhattacharyya | Mira Loma | Heights | 53 | 20 |
Hari Veginati | Stevenson A | Maggie Walker B | 53 | 20 |
Sam Asplund | Winnebago | Hoover B | 53 | 20 |
Omkar Marathe | William Fremd | Northmont A | 53 | 20 |
Joseph Harrison | Detroit Catholic Central C | Richard Montgomery | 53 | 20 |
Dillon Robertson | Carbondale | Norris | 65 | 20 |
Timothy Porter | Maggie Walker A | Midtown | 65 | 20 |
Aryan Pathak | Lake Highland | Carl Sandburg | 70 | 10 |
Anthony Chalhoub | Detroit Catholic Central B | Lincoln-Way East | 70 | 10 |
Kaushik Gollamudi | Barrington B | Washington | 70 | 10 |
Braden Booth | Dallas County | Elkhorn North | 115 | 10 |
Brodie Henry | West Point | Winston Churchill B | 116 | 10 |
Alan Fan | Thomas Jefferson D | Mercer County | 116 | 10 |
Miles Sierra | Waukee | Plymouth | 121 | 10 |
Geo Beach | New Brighton | Rockford Auburn B | 122 | 10 |