philosophical logic - 2024 ACF Fall

Question

Aristotle’s Prior Analytics is in the Organon (“or-guh-NON”), a collection of six books on this branch of philosophy. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this branch of philosophy that uses deductive reasoning to reach conclusions. Propositions connected by operators can be represented more simply through this branch’s “symbolic” form.

ANSWER: philosophical logic [accept deductive logic; accept symbolic logic]

[10m] The Prior Analytics coined the name for these arguments that derive a conclusion from a major and minor premise. A classic one of these arguments is “Socrates is a man. All men are mortal. Thus, Socrates is mortal.”

ANSWER: syllogism [or syllogismos or syllogistic arguments]

[10h] To be sound, a syllogism must have true premises and this other property. For an argument to have this property, its conclusion must logically follow from its premises.

ANSWER: validity

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Summary


2024 ACF Fall at Cornell	fall	Y	9	14.44	100%	33%	11%
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State	fall	Y	9	17.78	89%	56%	33%
2024 ACF Fall at Washington	fall	Y	7	15.71	86%	29%	43%
2024 ACF Fall at Georgia	fall	Y	14	10.71	93%	14%	0%
2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina	fall	Y	9	15.56	100%	44%	11%

Data


Cornell A	U of Rochester A	10	0	10	20
Cornell F	Cornell B	10	0	0	10
Syracuse	Cornell C	10	0	0	10
Binghamton A	Cornell D	10	10	0	20
Cornell G	RIT C	10	10	0	20
ESF	Penn State	10	0	0	10
RIT A	Binghamton C	10	0	0	10
RIT B	Cornell E	10	0	0	10
Binghamton B	U of Rochester B	10	10	0	20
CWRU B (DII)	CWRU A (UG)	10	0	0	10
Miami A (UG)	Michigan C	10	10	0	20
CWRU C (UG)	Miami C (DII)	10	10	10	30
Michigan A (UG)	Ohio State B (DII)	10	10	10	30
Jefferson County Scholars (DII)	Michigan B (UG)	10	0	0	10
Michigan State A	Michigan D (UG)	10	10	0	20
Ohio State C (DII)	Michigan State B	10	0	0	10
Ohio State A (UG)	Miami B (UG)	0	10	0	10
West Virginia A (UG)	West Virginia B (UG)	10	0	10	20
Arizona State A	Alberta	10	10	10	30
UW Wrath	UBC B	0	0	0	0
Arizona State B	UW Chastity	10	0	10	20
UBC A	UW Greed	10	0	0	10
UW Lust	Boise State	10	0	10	20
UW Gluttony	UW Pride	10	10	0	20
UW Sloth	UW Envy	10	0	0	10
Alabama A	Georgia Tech C	10	0	0	10
Alabama A	Georgia Tech C	10	0	0	10
Alabama A	Georgia Tech C	10	0	0	10
Alabama A	Georgia Tech C	10	0	0	10
Alabama A	Georgia Tech C	10	0	0	10
Alabama A	Georgia Tech C	10	0	0	10
Alabama A	Georgia Tech C	10	0	0	10
Alabama A	Georgia Tech C	10	0	0	10
Alabama A	Georgia Tech C	10	0	0	10
Alabama A	Georgia Tech C	10	0	0	10
Alabama A	Georgia Tech C	10	0	0	10
Alabama A	Georgia Tech C	10	0	0	10
Alabama A	Georgia Tech C	10	0	0	10
Alabama A	Georgia Tech C	10	0	0	10
Alabama A	Georgia Tech C	10	0	0	10
Alabama A	Georgia Tech C	10	0	0	10
Alabama A	Georgia Tech C	10	0	0	10
Alabama A	Georgia Tech C	10	0	0	10
Alabama A	Georgia Tech C	10	0	0	10
Alabama A	Georgia Tech C	10	0	0	10
Alabama A	Georgia Tech C	10	0	0	10
Alabama A	Georgia Tech C	10	0	0	10
Alabama A	Georgia Tech C	10	0	0	10
Alabama A	Georgia Tech C	10	0	0	10
Alabama A	Georgia Tech C	10	0	0	10
Alabama A	Georgia Tech C	10	0	0	10
Alabama A	Georgia Tech C	10	0	0	10
Furman	Clemson B	10	10	0	20
Emory A	Mississippi State A	10	0	0	10
Georgia A	Auburn B	0	0	0	0
Tennessee A	Georgia Tech A	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech B	Vanderbilt A	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech D	Auburn A	10	0	0	10
South Carolina A	Georgia Tech E	10	10	0	20
Emory Oxford	South Carolina B	10	0	0	10
Clemson A	Southern	10	0	0	10
Tennessee B	Auburn C	10	0	0	10
Vanderbilt B	Belmont	10	0	0	10
Virginia	Appalachian State B	10	0	0	10
Duke B	Liberty B	10	10	10	30
James Madison A	UNC D	10	0	0	10
NC State	UNC A	10	10	0	20
Liberty A	UNC B	10	10	0	20
VCU	Liberty C	10	0	0	10
Virginia Tech A	Duke A	10	10	0	20
UNC C	Virginia Tech B	10	0	0	10
William & Mary	Tusculum	10	0	0	10