Question
Some theories which solve this problem may themselves face the “tacking paradox,” also known as the irrelevant conjunction problem. After his original solution to this problem was criticized for containing outside information, I. J. Good created the example of an infinitely intelligent newborn baby. The paper which describes this problem rejects the converse consequence condition, and follows it with an example of pure ice not turning yellow in a flame test. This problem relies on the (*) equivalence condition and Nicod’s criterion, which states that universal generalizations are supported by their instances. First laid out in “Studies in the Logic of Confirmation,” this problem results in almost all observations confirming its central hypothesis. For 10 points, name this paradox by Carl Hempel, which concludes that the existence of green apples confirms the claim that certain birds are black. ■END■
Summary
2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 67% | 103.33 |
2024 ARGOS Online | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 93.33 |
2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 88.67 |
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 40% | 0% | 80% | 137.00 |
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 115.33 |
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 40% | 126.50 |
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 85.33 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Anuttam Ramji | Cry of the Common Loon | number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku | 18 | -5 |
Jordan Brownstein | "Powers a question on Stancyzk" that's a clown question bro | Pahkin' the Ahgo | 30 | 15 |
Neil Gurram | A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs | Stanford+ | 37 | 15 |
Omer Keskin | Cien Años de Quizboledad | Defying Suavity | 42 | 15 |
Agnijo Banerjee | Simple Vibes | Cambridge | 77 | 10 |
Michael Hundiing | Who is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus? | Clown Senpais | 80 | -5 |
Joel Miles | Thompson et al. | Aw we're so sorry to hear that maman died today, she gets five big booms | 82 | 10 |
John Lawrence | Walston et. al. | just one more half-dot bro | 84 | 10 |
John Marvin | The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day) | BHSU Rebirth | 85 | -5 |
Jananan Arulseelan | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | 85 | -5 |
Erik Christensen | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | 90 | -5 |
Elijah Mandelbaum | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | 90 | -5 |
Matthew Wang | UBC | I wish it were possible to freeze time so I would never have to watch you retire | 90 | 10 |
Matt Bollinger | BHSU ReFantazio | WashU | 107 | 10 |
Natan Holtzman | throw away your cards, rally in the streets | CLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU! | 108 | 10 |
Rayton Lin | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | 110 | -5 |
Jason Golfinos | Where are the ACF Nationals recordings? | Berkeley | 111 | -5 |
Walter Zhang | Import Pandas | Banned from ARGOS | 114 | 10 |
Adam Silverman | |madam| | Hu up Jinning they Tao | 122 | 10 |
Patrick Quion | Northeast by Northwestern | Notre Dame | 125 | 10 |
Emmett Laurie | jeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club | NJ TRANSit (and anwen | 125 | 10 |
Vincent Du | number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku | Cry of the Common Loon | 136 | 10 |
Rob Carson | BHSU Rebirth | The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day) | 137 | 10 |
Mike Bentley | Music to Help You Stop Smoking | That Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days | 137 | 10 |
Oscar Siddle | Limp Francekit | Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz | 137 | 10 |
Ryan Rosenberg | Cope is the thing with feathers | 12 Litres of Green Tea | 137 | 10 |
Benjamin Chapman | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | 137 | 10 |
Aaron Dos Remedios | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | 137 | 0 |
Raymond Chen | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | 137 | 0 |
Colin Veevers | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | 137 | 10 |
Swapnil Garg | Berkeley | Where are the ACF Nationals recordings? | 137 | 10 |