the Eleatic stranger - 2025 Penn Bowl

Question

This figure explains the five “great kinds” in a dialogue where he tries to defend the idea that people can say and think things that are not the case. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this figure, who detours into a grand metaphysical discussion concerning how failing to have a property is possible, sidetracking a conversation with Theaetetus about what the title profession does in Plato’s Sophist.

ANSWER: the Eleatic stranger

[10m] The Eleatic stranger’s interest with non-being references this Eleatic pre-socratic who argued that non-being is impossible. This thinker presents the “greatest trouble” for the theory of forms in a namesake dialogue.

ANSWER: Parmenides (“par-MEN-uh-deez”)

[10e] The Parmenides begins just after this student of Parmenides defends his master’s thesis that change is impossible by presenting arguments showing that motion leads to paradoxes.

ANSWER: Zeno of Elea

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2025 Penn Bowl - BU	11/01/25	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - CWRU	11/01/25	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Mainsite (UPenn)	11/01/25	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	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	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Online	11/08/25	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Ottawa	11/01/25	Y	7	14.29	100%	43%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Stanford	10/25/25	Y	4	15.00	75%	75%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - UK	11/01/25	Y	5	18.00	100%	60%	20%
2025 Penn Bowl - UNC	11/01/25	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - WashU	11/01/25	Y	2	10.00	50%	50%	0%

Data


Brandeis	Harvard	0	10	10	20
MIT A	Brown	0	0	10	10
I've been running into you in my lead plumbocene what could have benzene	RIT	0	10	10	20
MIT B	Yale	0	10	10	20
Michigan C	CWRU	0	0	10	10
Columbia A	NYU B	0	10	10	20
Swarthmore	Columbia B	0	10	10	20
Maryland B	JHU A	0	0	10	10
Maryland A	Mount Sinai	0	0	10	10
John Jay	NYU A	0	10	10	20
Central Oklahoma	Oklahoma	0	0	0	0
Texas A	Texas B	0	0	10	10
Northwestern A	UChicago C	0	0	10	10
Northwestern B	Indiana	0	0	10	10
UChicago A	Purdue A	0	10	10	20
abg academy	Wake Up Paddington A Washington Mystery	0	0	10	10
New Young Whigs of America	rusty shackleford	0	0	10	10
#OpenToBuzz	Toronto G	0	0	10	10
McGill B	Carleton A	0	0	10	10
Aweille Kevin Fan osti continue comme ça	McGill Fartlets	0	10	10	20
Waterloo you are crooked	Ottawa 67s	0	10	10	20
Guelph perfomative male competition	Queen's is monitoring the situation	0	0	10	10
Toronto Operation PBSuccess	Toronto Murder on the Rider Express	0	10	10	20
Toronto E	Toronto Sunshine Bubbles	0	0	10	10
Berkeley C	Berkeley A	0	0	0	0
Stanford A	Berkeley B	0	10	10	20
Free Win	The best time to buzz was twenty clues ago. The second best time to buzz is now	0	10	10	20
In Search of Lost Clues	Stanford B	0	10	10	20
Penn and the Art of Tossup-Bonus cycle Maintenance	Galactic Ombudsmen	0	10	10	20
Hail to the Sheaf	why is it called a score clue if nobody scores points on it	0	0	10	10
Knorr Stock Clue	Bristold	0	10	10	20
To buzz is to be perceived	1. Wawa 2. Blank Street 151. Black Sheep at Kings Cross rail	10	10	10	30
Quiztian Bale in Ratman Begins	Washed Scrubs	0	0	10	10
Planck Sinatra	VT B	0	0	10	10
UNC A	VT A	0	0	10	10
WashU Bouba	Truman State	0	0	0	0
WashU Kiki	VJ Edgecombe School of Interior Design - Edwardsville	0	10	10	20
UChicago B	Purdue B	0	10	10	20
Michigan B	Ohio State B	0	0	10	10
Pittsburgh	Michigan A	0	10	10	20