Karl Popper - 2025 ACF Winter

Question

This man suggested that improbable theories are more scientifically valuable, since they are more informative and thus more testable. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this thinker who proposed solving the demarcation problem by treating falsifiability as the feature distinguishing scientific theories from pseudoscientific ones in The Logic of Scientific Discovery.

ANSWER: Karl Popper [or Sir Karl Raimund Popper]

[10h] In Conjectures and Refutations, Popper derived a formula for ascribing this property to a theory. This idea’s namesake philosophical problem concerns how to evaluate the degree to which a false proposition is false.

ANSWER: verisimilitude [or truthlikeness; reject “truth”]

[10e] Popper claimed that Hume’s problem of this process, which draws general conclusions from past experiences, was unsolvable because science is instead based on deductive reasoning rather than this kind of reasoning.

ANSWER: inductive reasoning [or induction]

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California	Main	Y	5	18.00	100%	60%	20%
Canada	Main	Y	6	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	6	10.00	83%	17%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	7	11.43	71%	43%	0%
Midwest	Main	Y	10	14.00	90%	50%	0%
North	Main	Y	10	15.00	80%	70%	0%
Northeast	Main	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
Pacific Northwest	Main	Y	9	15.56	89%	67%	0%
Pacific Northwest	Main	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
South Central	Main	Y	5	14.00	80%	60%	0%
Southeast	Main	Y	12	12.50	92%	33%	0%
UK	Main	Y	4	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	8	16.25	100%	63%	0%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	8	16.25	88%	75%	0%
2025 ACF Nationals	2025-08-09	Y	11	16.36	82%	82%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%

Data


Berkeley A	Berkeley D	10	0	10	20
Berkeley E	Stanford C	0	0	10	10
Stanford B	UCSC	0	0	10	10
Berkeley F	Berkeley C	10	0	10	20
Berkeley B	Stanford A	10	10	10	30
Claremont Scripps	UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms	10	0	10	20
UCLA D	UCI	10	0	10	20
UCLA A	UCSB	10	0	10	20
UCLA B	UCSD Vices and Virtues	10	0	10	20
UCSD What Hath God Wrought	UCLA C	10	0	10	20
USC	Claremont Pitzer	10	0	10	20
UF D	FSU	0	0	10	10
ERAU B	UF B	0	0	0	0
FIU	Melbourne A	10	0	10	20
Melbourne B	UF E	0	0	10	10
ERAU A	UF C	0	0	10	10
UF A	USF	0	0	10	10
MSU A	CWRU A	0	0	10	10
OSU D	CWRU B	0	0	10	10
Kenyon A	CWRU C	0	0	0	0
CWRU D	Kenyon B	10	0	10	20
OSU B	MSU B	10	0	10	20
OSU C	OSU A	10	0	10	20
Pitt B	Pitt C	0	0	0	0
Liberty A	Tennessee B	10	0	10	20
Tennessee A	Clemson B	0	0	10	10
North Carolina C	Liberty C	0	0	10	10
North Carolina B	James Madison	0	0	10	10
Roanoke	Virginia B	0	0	10	10
North Carolina A	South Carolina B	10	0	10	20
Tusculum	South Carolina A	10	0	0	10
Virginia A	NC State	10	0	10	20
Virginia Tech A	Clemson A	10	0	10	20
Virginia Tech B	Liberty B	0	0	10	10
Georgetown A	George Mason B	0	0	10	10
George Washington A	Johns Hopkins C	10	0	10	20
Maryland A	George Mason C	10	0	10	20
Penn A	Maryland B	10	0	10	20
NYU A	Catholic University	10	0	10	20
NYU B	George Washington B	10	0	10	20
Notre Dame E	Johns Hopkins A	0	0	10	10
Maryland D	Penn B	0	0	0	0
VCU A	UMBC A	10	0	0	10
Columbia A	Princeton A	10	0	10	20
Swarthmore A	Columbia C	10	0	10	20
Lehigh A	Vassar A	0	0	10	10
Rowan A	Lehigh B	0	0	10	10
Rutgers B	Columbia B	0	0	10	10
Georgetown B	Maryland C	10	0	10	20
Michigan A	Chicago D	10	0	10	20
Indiana A	Purdue C	10	0	0	10
Illinois A	Indiana B	10	0	10	20
Louisville B	Michigan B	0	0	10	10
Chicago A	Michigan D	0	0	10	10
UIC	Notre Dame B	10	0	10	20
Kentucky	Notre Dame D	0	0	10	10
Purdue A	Illinois B	10	0	10	20
Notre Dame A	Purdue B	10	0	10	20
Notre Dame C	Chicago C	10	0	10	20
Carleton	Minnesota C	10	0	10	20
Minnesota A	Macalester A	10	0	10	20
Macalester B	Iowa State	10	0	0	10
Nebraska	St. Thomas	0	0	10	10
Minnesota B	Wisconsin	0	0	10	10
Brown A	BC A	10	0	0	10
Brandeis Lloyd George	BC B	0	0	10	10
Brandeis Orlando	BU	0	0	10	10
Cornell-UG	Bowdoin B	10	0	10	20
Yale A	Brandeis Clemenceau	0	0	10	10
Brown C	Amherst A	0	0	10	10
MIT A	Brown B	0	0	10	10
Dartmouth	MIT B	0	0	10	10
Tufts A	Amherst B	10	0	10	20
Tufts B	Brandeis Wilson	10	0	10	20
Williams	Bowdoin A	0	0	10	10
Yale B	Harvard	0	0	10	10
British Columbia A	Washington B	10	0	10	20
British Columbia D	Washington A	10	0	10	20
Simon Fraser	British Columbia C	10	0	10	20
Alberta	British Columbia B	10	0	10	20
Alberta B	UTD A	10	0	10	20
Arizona State A	Northwestern B	10	0	10	20
Northwestern A	Arizona State B	10	0	10	20
Ohio	Tulsa	10	0	10	20
Iowa	Rose State	0	0	10	10
Texas A	McGill D	10	0	10	20
Texas B	Northwestern C	0	0	10	10
UCO	UTD B	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech A	Alabama A	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech C	Alabama B	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech D	Vanderbilt B	10	0	10	20
Vanderbilt A	Huntsville A	10	0	10	20
Bruin A	Huntsville B	10	0	10	20
Mississippi State A	Sewanee A	0	0	10	10
Auburn B	UAB A	0	0	0	0
Auburn A	Georgia Tech B	10	0	10	20
Sheffield B	Birmingham A	0	0	10	10
LSE A	Cambridge C	10	0	10	20
Sheffield C	Durham B	0	0	0	0
Edinburgh B	Warwick B	10	0	0	10
Imperial B	Edinburgh A	10	0	10	20
LSE B	Bristol A	10	0	10	20
Bristol B	Lancaster A	10	0	10	20
Manchester A	Southampton A	10	0	10	20
Cambridge A	Manchester B	10	0	10	20
Oxford A	Imperial C	10	0	10	20
Cambridge B	Imperial A	10	0	10	20
Cornell-DII	ESF	0	0	10	10
RIT B	Binghamton B	10	0	10	20
Syracuse	Binghamton A	10	0	10	20
RIT A	Rochester	0	0	10	10