baptism - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

Michael Devitt introduced the idea that these events are affected by subsequent interactions, which he called “multiple groundings.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Give this term for the moment of “dubbing” that sets off a “causal chain.” Saul Kripke used this term in Naming and Necessity for the event when a name is first assigned to something and becomes a rigid designator.

ANSWER: baptism [or initial baptism; accept baptismal ceremony; accept word forms like baptizing]

[10m] Kripke’s account opposed a prior theory that treats the meaning of a name as equivalent to the set of these phrases. The essay “On Denoting” distinguishes between “definite” and “indefinite” examples of these phrases.

ANSWER: descriptions [accept descriptivism or word forms like describing]

[10e] This Cambridge philosopher laid the groundwork for his descriptivist theory of names in “On Denoting.” He also co-wrote Principia Mathematica with Alfred North Whitehead.

ANSWER: Bertrand Russell

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Summary


California	2025-02-01	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	5	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	8.33	67%	0%	17%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	6	18.33	100%	50%	33%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	67%	33%	33%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	5	10.00	80%	20%	0%
Pacific Northwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	2	25.00	100%	100%	50%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	7.50	75%	0%	0%
UK	2025-02-01	Y	10	12.00	60%	50%	10%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	8	15.00	75%	50%	25%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%

Data


Claremont A	UCLA	0	0	10	10
Carnegie Mellon A	Ohio State A	0	0	10	10
Michigan D	Carnegie Mellon B	0	0	10	10
Duke	William & Mary	0	0	10	10
Illinois B	Indiana B	0	10	10	20
Illinois C	WashU A	0	0	10	10
Carleton	Wisconsin A	0	0	0	0
Northwestern A	Georgetown B	0	0	10	10
Iowa	Notre Dame B	0	0	10	10
UW A	Alberta	0	0	10	10
UBC	UW B	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech C	Alabama A	0	0	10	10
Cambridge E	Cambridge C	0	0	10	10
Columbia B	Haverford B	0	10	10	20
Cornell B	Columbia C	10	10	10	30
RIT B	Binghamton A	0	0	10	10
Case Western A	Case Western B	0	0	10	10
Michigan State	Michigan A	0	0	10	10
Ohio State B	Kenyon	0	0	10	10
Stanford B	Georgetown A	0	10	10	20
Purdue	Northwestern B	0	0	10	10
Notre Dame C	Notre Dame A	0	0	0	0
Texas A	TAMU	0	10	10	20
ASU	Texas B	10	10	10	30
Louisville A	Vanderbilt A	0	0	0	0
Tennessee A	Georgia Tech D	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech B	Bruin A	0	0	10	10
Cambridge A	Oxford B	10	10	10	30
Cambridge D	Cambridge B	0	10	0	10
Imperial A	Durham	0	0	10	10
Imperial B	LSE	0	0	0	0
Warwick A	Manchester	0	0	10	10
Oxford A	Warwick B	0	10	10	20
Oxford C	Southampton A	0	0	0	0
Sheffield	Bristol	0	10	0	10
Southampton B	NYU C	0	10	10	20
Claremont B	UC Berkeley A	0	0	10	10
UC Berkeley B	UCSD	10	10	10	30
UNC B	Liberty A	10	0	10	20
Liberty C	UNC D	0	0	0	0
South Carolina	Virginia Tech A	0	0	10	10
UNC C	Liberty B	0	0	0	0
Virginia A	Wake Forest	0	0	10	10
Chicago A	Chicago B	10	10	10	30
Chicago D	Missouri S&T	0	0	10	10
Illinois A	Indiana A	10	10	10	30
Chicago C	Missouri	0	0	10	10
Winona State	Iowa State	10	10	10	30
Minnesota B	Wisconsin B	0	0	10	10
NYU A	John Jay College	10	10	10	30
Johns Hopkins A	Rutgers A	0	10	10	20
Penn B	Maryland B	0	0	0	0
NYU B	George Washington A	0	0	10	10
George Washington B	Penn A	0	0	0	0
Vassar A	Yale A	0	0	10	10
Cornell D	ESF A	0	0	10	10
RIT A	Cornell C	0	10	10	20