Question

A 2023 Lukas Verburgt book makes the dual claims that this thinker was simultaneously a forerunner of British pragmatism and the link between the Cambridge school and later analytical philosophers. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this thinker, who is best remembered for his namesake diagrams which show two circles and their intersection.
ANSWER: John Venn [or Venn diagrams]
[10m] Venn adopted Alexander Bain’s definition of this concept as the readiness to act. Responding to W. K. Clifford, a thinker distinguished between dead and living hypotheses, arguing that because most are “hardly living,” this concept is rarely forced.
ANSWER: belief
[10h] This thinker opposed Venn’s frequency theory of probability because it could not be a guide to life. He argued that probability was numerical representations of individuals' confidence in the paper “Truth and Probability.”
ANSWER: Frank Ramsey
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2023 Penn Bowl @ Waterloo10/28/2023Y410.00100%0%0%
2023 Penn Bowl @ FSU10/28/2023Y215.00100%50%0%
2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard)10/21/2023Y110.00100%0%0%
2023 Penn Bowl (Mainsite)10/21/2023Y120.00100%100%0%
2023 Penn Bowl (Norcal)10/28/2023Y210.00100%0%0%
2023 Penn Bowl (South Central)10/28/2023Y310.00100%0%0%
2023 Penn Bowl (UK)10/28/2023Y518.00100%40%40%

Data

Waterloo HatsuneLa Clique du Château100010
Library of Babel School of Continuing StudiesMixed-Affiliated Contingency, Off the Team & Absent: Wong, Adrian100010
Toronto WearyWaterloo Miku100010
Toronto JoyToronto Rofl100010
Florida AFlorida B1010020
North FloridaFSU A100010
MITBrown100010
RutgersCornell B1010020
StanfordBerkeley A100010
Berkeley CBerkeley B100010
Oklahoma ATexas B100010
Texas AOklahoma B100010
Texas CRice100010
3HK1MMBetrayed by Rita Izzatdust100010
10 Negs that Shook the QuizBroken Hearts100010
EdinburghYes, Moderator1001020
Four Neg OmeletteFoucault's Penndulum1010020
TabearnacleOld London Town10101030