This thinker addressed the problem of empty names by asking “What is there?” and replying “Everything.” This thinker claimed that “to be is to be the value of a bound variable.” Otto Neurath (“NOY-rot”) inspired the title of this thinker’s book Web of Belief, as well as this thinker’s use of a metaphor for improving conceptual schemes like a sailor fixing a boat. This thinker proposed an experiment about a person who sees a rabbit and says “gavagai” to illustrate the “inscrutability of reference” and the “indeterminacy of translation.” A paper by this author that attacks the analytic/synthetic distinction opens with the statements “No unmarried man is married” and “No bachelor is married.” For 10 points, name this philosopher who wrote Word and Object and “Two Dogmas of Empiricism.” ■END■
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Berkeley | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 75.67 |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 83.67 |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU | 01/27/2024 | Y | 9 | 56% | 0% | 11% | 62.60 |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Minnesota | 01/27/2024 | Y | 2 | 50% | 0% | 50% | 76.00 |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska | 01/27/2024 | Y | 6 | 67% | 0% | 17% | 112.25 |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State | 01/27/2024 | Y | 2 | 50% | 0% | 0% | 76.00 |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 83.80 |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 67.60 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caleb Kendrick | Maryland A | GWU A | 17 | 10 |
| William Dawson | UBC A | Sorbonne | 30 | -5 |
| Amogh Kulkarni | Geodesic | Alabama | 32 | 10 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay | Columbia A | 42 | 10 |
| Giovanni Mazzeo | Virginia A | Virginia C | 47 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | MTSU | Tennessee | 47 | 10 |
| Bianca Van Zile | Binghamton | Cornell B | 48 | 10 |
| Joel Miles | Minnesota B | Minnesota C | 67 | -5 |
| Tim Morrison | Stanford A | Berkeley C | 75 | 10 |
| Gavin Markoff | Vanderbilt A | South Carolina | 75 | 10 |
| Anuttam Ramji | Berkeley B | Stanford B | 76 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley A | Stanford C | 76 | 10 |
| Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford | UNC A | Liberty B | 76 | 10 |
| Jonathan Shauf | UNC B | UNC D | 76 | 10 |
| Perry O'Connor | Liberty A | Virginia B | 76 | -5 |
| Kevin Zheng | Michigan C | Ohio State A | 76 | 10 |
| Seth Ebner | Johns Hopkins | Haverford | 76 | 10 |
| Andrew Hanna | Penn | Vassar | 76 | 10 |
| Jaik Havlick | Arizona State | Iowa State | 76 | 10 |
| Raymond Wang | Cornell A | RIT A | 76 | 10 |
| Halle Friedman | NYU A | Columbia B | 85 | -5 |
| Quentin Mot | Georgia Tech A | Harding | 87 | 10 |
| Ryan Humphrey | Texas A | Iowa B | 87 | 10 |
| Kevin Liu | Maryland C | Duke A | 97 | 10 |
| Jason Qin | Columbia C | NYU B | 97 | 10 |
| Corey Smith | Kentucky | Vanderbilt B | 97 | 10 |
| Roan Dowling | Iowa A | UW A | 109 | 10 |
| Kevin Park | Claremont A | Texas A&M B | 125 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT B | Cornell C | 127 | 10 |
| Alex Emmert | Maryland B | William & Mary A | 128 | 0 |
| Michael Eng | UNC C | JMU A | 128 | 0 |
| Carly Hemani | JMU A | UNC C | 128 | 0 |
| Mason Mabry | Virginia B | Liberty A | 128 | 0 |
| Cameron Williams | Appalachian State | Rice A | 128 | 0 |
| Cormac Beirne | Sorbonne | UBC A | 128 | 10 |
| Anton Akroush | Michigan State A | Texas A&M A | 128 | 0 |
| Seth Webb | Texas A&M A | Michigan State A | 128 | 0 |
| Matthew Lam | Ohio State B | Michigan B | 128 | 0 |
| Dennis Yang | Michigan B | Ohio State B | 128 | 0 |
| John John Groger | Columbia B | NYU A | 128 | 10 |
| Aiden Wegener | GWU B | Roanoke College A | 128 | 0 |
| Aleks Kozlowski | Roanoke College A | GWU B | 128 | 0 |
| Keegan Wulf | Minnesota C | Minnesota B | 128 | 0 |