mereological nihilism - 2025 Penn Bowl

Question

One iteration of this view, existence monism, holds all of reality to be composed of a single all-encompassing entity known as the “blobject.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this eliminativist mereological view which holds that everyday items like chairs are more accurately described as simples arranged chair-wise.

ANSWER: mereological nihilism

[10e] Mereology, which studies the relationships between parts and wholes, is a subfield of this branch of philosophy which studies being.

ANSWER: ontology

[10m] Mereological nihilists’ rejection of ordinary objects is supported by the existence of sorites sequences, which are boundaries between parts and wholes described by this specific term.

ANSWER: vagueness [accept vague boundaries]

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2025 Penn Bowl - BU	11/01/25	Y	3	3.33	33%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Mainsite (UPenn)	11/01/25	Y	6	5.00	50%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Murray State	11/08/25	Y	2	5.00	50%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Northwestern	10/25/25	Y	4	5.00	50%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Online	11/08/25	Y	2	5.00	50%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Ottawa	11/01/25	Y	7	5.71	57%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Stanford	10/25/25	Y	3	3.33	33%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - UK	11/01/25	Y	8	10.00	88%	0%	13%
2025 Penn Bowl - UNC	11/01/25	Y	2	0.00	0%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - WashU	11/01/25	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%

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Brown	Yale	0	0	0
Harvard	I've been running into you in my lead plumbocene what could have benzene	0	0	0
MIT B	MIT A	0	10	10
Mount Sinai	John Jay	0	0	0
Columbia A	JHU A	0	10	10
Maryland C	Columbia B	0	0	0
Swarthmore	Maryland A	0	10	10
Maryland B	JHU B	0	10	10
Texas A	Central Oklahoma	0	10	10
Texas B	Oklahoma	0	0	0
UChicago C	Illinois	0	10	10
Indiana	Northwestern A	0	10	10
Northwestern B	UChicago B	0	0	0
Wake Up Paddington A Washington Mystery	New Young Whigs of America	0	0	0
rusty shackleford	abg academy	0	10	10
Purdue B	UChicago A	0	0	0
In Search of Lost Clues	Berkeley B	0	10	10
Berkeley C	Free Win	0	0	0
The best time to buzz was twenty clues ago. The second best time to buzz is now	Berkeley A	0	0	0
Waterloo you are crooked	Carleton A	0	10	10
McGill B	Toronto Murder on the Rider Express	0	0	0
Queen's is monitoring the situation	McGill Fartlets	0	10	10
Ottawa 67s	#OpenToBuzz	0	0	0
Guelph perfomative male competition	Toronto E	0	0	0
Aweille Kevin Fan osti continue comme ça	Toronto Operation PBSuccess	0	10	10
Toronto G	Toronto Sunshine Bubbles	0	10	10
1. Wawa 2. Blank Street 151. Black Sheep at Kings Cross rail	Burnaburiash's Lapis Lazuli	0	10	10
Galactic Ombudsmen	Washed Scrubs	0	10	10
Chimp Brisket	Of Mice and Penn	0	0	0
Knorr Stock Clue	Paul Quifford, or, It Was a Dark and Stormy Tournament	0	10	10
Penn and the Art of Tossup-Bonus cycle Maintenance	Coughing Baby	10	10	20
The Bit and the Penndulum	Bristold	0	10	10
To buzz is to be perceived	Hail to the Sheaf	0	10	10
why is it called a score clue if nobody scores points on it	Alas poor Warwick, I knew him Edinburgh	0	10	10
NYU B	NYU A	0	0	0
Planck Sinatra	VT A	0	0	0
WashU Kiki	Truman State	0	10	10
WashU Bouba	VJ Edgecombe School of Interior Design - Edwardsville	0	10	10
Wise Duke	UNC A	0	0	0