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 Claremont Colleges	fall	Y	4	25.00	100%	100%	50%
2024 ACF Fall at Cornell	fall	Y	9	21.11	100%	78%	33%
2024 ACF Fall at Illinois	fall	Y	9	18.89	100%	78%	11%
2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers	fall	Y	7	20.00	100%	71%	29%
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State	fall	Y	8	13.75	88%	38%	13%
2024 ACF Fall at Georgia	fall	Y	10	17.00	90%	60%	20%
2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina	fall	Y	9	13.33	100%	22%	11%

Data


UCLA A	Claremont B	10	10	0	20
UCLA E	UCLA D	10	10	10	30
Claremont C	UCSD	10	10	10	30
UCLA B	UCLA C	10	10	0	20
Binghamton A	Cornell C	10	10	10	30
Cornell G	Binghamton C	10	10	0	20
Cornell F	U of Rochester A	0	10	0	10
Cornell B	ESF	10	10	10	30
Binghamton B	RIT C	10	10	0	20
Illinois D	Chicago A	10	10	0	20
Chicago B	Northwestern A	10	10	0	20
Iowa B	Illinois A	0	10	0	10
Indiana	Purdue B	10	10	0	20
Iowa A	Northwestern B	0	10	0	10
Notre Dame A	Illinois B	10	10	10	30
Purdue A	Illinois C	10	10	0	20
SIUE	WashU A	10	10	0	20
Notre Dame C	WashU B	10	10	0	20
RIT B	Cornell D	10	10	0	20
Cornell E	Syracuse	10	10	0	20
Cornell A	Penn State	0	10	0	10
RIT A	U of Rochester B	10	10	10	30
Columbia B	Columbia A	10	10	0	20
Fordham A	Penn A	10	10	0	20
Penn B	Rutgers A	10	10	0	20
NYU B	Princeton A	10	10	10	30
Rowan A	Rutgers B	0	10	0	10
Lehigh B	Maryland B	0	10	0	10
NYU A	Maryland A	10	10	10	30
Miami B	Michigan State A	10	10	0	20
Miami C	CWRU A	0	0	0	0
CWRU B	Michigan D	0	10	0	10
Ohio State A	Miami A	10	10	0	20
Ohio State C	Michigan A	0	10	0	10
Jefferson County Scholars	West Virginia A	0	10	0	10
Michigan B	West Virginia B	10	10	10	30
Michigan C	Michigan State B	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech D	Alabama A	10	10	10	30
Belmont	Auburn A	10	0	0	10
Emory A	Clemson B	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech B	Georgia Tech A	10	10	0	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