Achilles - 2024 ACF Fall - Buzzpoints App

Question

Lewis Carroll argued that modus tollens arguments create infinite regresses in a paper titled “What [a competitor] Said to [this figure].” For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this man. In a race proposed by an ancient Greek philosopher, this man cannot catch up to a tortoise given a head start because every time he runs to where the tortoise is, the tortoise moves some distance.

ANSWER: Achilles [or Achilleus; accept “What the Tortoise Said to Achilles”]

[10e] The race between Achilles and the tortoise is one of many of these statements that seemingly contradict themselves posited by the ancient thinker Zeno.

ANSWER: paradoxes [accept Zeno’s paradoxes]

[10h] This thinker reversed his earlier agreement with Zeno’s views of motion in his book Our Knowledge of the External World. This thinker formulated a paradox often illustrated with a barber who both shaves and does not shave himself.

ANSWER: Bertrand Russell [or Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell]

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Summary


2024 ACF Fall at Cornell	fall	Y	9	21.11	100%	78%	33%
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State	fall	Y	8	13.75	88%	38%	13%
2024 ACF Fall at Georgia	fall	Y	13	17.69	92%	54%	31%
2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina	fall	Y	9	13.33	100%	22%	11%

Data


Binghamton A	Cornell C	10	10	10	30
Cornell G	Binghamton C	10	10	0	20
RIT B	Cornell D	10	10	0	20
Cornell E	Syracuse	10	10	0	20
Cornell F	U of Rochester A	0	10	0	10
Cornell B	ESF	10	10	10	30
Cornell A	Penn State	0	10	0	10
RIT A	U of Rochester B	10	10	10	30
Binghamton B	RIT C	10	10	0	20
Miami C (DII)	CWRU A (UG)	0	0	0	0
CWRU B (DII)	Michigan D (UG)	0	10	0	10
Miami B (UG)	Michigan State A	10	10	0	20
Michigan C	Michigan State B	0	10	0	10
Ohio State A (UG)	Miami A (UG)	10	10	0	20
Ohio State C (DII)	Michigan A (UG)	0	10	0	10
Jefferson County Scholars (DII)	West Virginia A (UG)	0	10	0	10
Michigan B (UG)	West Virginia B (UG)	10	10	10	30
Belmont	Auburn A	10	0	0	10
Emory A	Clemson B	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech B	Furman	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech B	Furman	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech B	Georgia Tech A	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech B	Georgia Tech A	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech B	Furman	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech B	Furman	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech B	Georgia Tech A	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech B	Georgia Tech A	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech D	Alabama A	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech D	Alabama A	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech D	Alabama A	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech D	Alabama A	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech D	Alabama A	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech D	Alabama A	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech D	Alabama A	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech D	Alabama A	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech E	Clemson A	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech E	Clemson A	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech E	Clemson A	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech E	Clemson A	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech E	Clemson A	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech E	Clemson A	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech E	Clemson A	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech E	Clemson A	0	10	10	20
Mississippi State A	Georgia A	10	10	0	20
South Carolina A	Georgia Tech C	10	10	0	20
South Carolina B	Auburn B	10	10	0	20
Southern	Vanderbilt A	0	10	0	10
Tennessee A	Vanderbilt B	0	10	0	10
Appalachian State A	Virginia Tech B	10	10	0	20
Appalachian State B	William & Mary	0	10	0	10
James Madison A	Duke B	0	10	0	10
Liberty B	James Madison B	0	10	0	10
NC State	UNC C	0	10	0	10
Liberty A	Tusculum	0	10	10	20
UNC D	UNC A	0	10	0	10
Virginia Tech A	UNC B	10	10	0	20
Virginia	Duke A	0	10	0	10