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Question

John Searle posited these things as a “cluster” of components whose disjunction is only known to be possessed a priori. For 10 points each:

[10m] Identify these things that, with “Necessity,” title a lecture series by Saul Kripke that rejects descriptivism.

ANSWER: names [accept proper names; accept cluster theory of names; accept Naming and Necessity; prompt on rigid designators]

[10e] Douglas Hofstadter described “strange loops” created by self-reference in a book partially titled for this mathematician. In Naming and Necessity, Kripke argues against the descriptivist theory of names by describing a world where this mathematician’s friend Schmidt theorized his two incompleteness theorems.

ANSWER: Kurt Gödel [or Kurt Friedrich Gödel; accept Gödel’s incompleteness theorems; accept Gödel, Escher, Bach]

[10h] In Naming and Necessity, Kripke posits this theory of reference based on historical chains. A Gareth Evans paper cites Marco Polo’s misunderstanding of the meaning of “Madagascar” to advocate for including “multiple groundings” alongside “initial baptism” in this theory.

ANSWER: causal theory of reference [or causal connections; or causal chains; or causal-historical theory; accept “The Causal Theory of Names”; accept causes]

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California	Main	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
Canada	Main	Y	6	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Florida	Main	Y	12	16.67	100%	50%	17%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	3	6.67	67%	0%	0%
Overflow	Main	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Pacific Northwest	Main	Y	9	14.44	100%	44%	0%
South Central	Main	Y	5	10.00	80%	20%	0%
UK	Main	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	8	12.50	63%	63%	0%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	8	10.00	63%	38%	0%
2025 ACF Nationals	2025-08-09	Y	9	15.56	100%	56%	0%

Data


Stanford A	Berkeley B	10	10	0	20
Berkeley E	Berkeley A	0	10	0	10
Berkeley D	Stanford C	10	10	0	20
Berkeley C	Stanford B	10	10	0	20
Claremont Scripps	UCI	0	10	0	10
USC	UCLA B	0	10	0	10
UCLA C	UCSB	10	10	0	20
UCLA A	UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms	10	10	0	20
UCSD Vices and Virtues	UCLA D	0	10	0	10
Claremont Pitzer	UCSD What Hath God Wrought	0	10	0	10
Toronto F	Guelph B	0	10	0	10
McGill A	Toronto H	10	10	0	20
Carleton	McMaster A	10	10	0	20
Guelph A	McMaster B	0	10	0	10
Toronto C	McMaster C	10	10	10	30
Queen's B	Toronto E	0	10	0	10
Toronto A	McGill C	10	10	10	30
Toronto B	Toronto I	10	10	0	20
McGill B	Toronto D	0	10	0	10
Toronto J	Waterloo	0	10	0	10
Toronto K	Ottawa	0	10	0	10
Toronto Metropolitan	Western Ontario	10	10	0	20
UF A	UF E	0	0	0	0
UF B	FIU	0	10	0	10
UCF A	UCF B	0	10	0	10
Missouri A	WashU A	10	10	0	20
Illinois B	Notre Dame D	10	10	0	20
Louisville A	Chicago D	0	10	0	10
Louisville B	Notre Dame C	0	10	0	10
Michigan A	Notre Dame A	10	10	0	20
Michigan C	UIC	0	10	0	10
Indiana A	Notre Dame B	10	10	0	20
Kentucky	Purdue A	0	10	0	10
Purdue B	Illinois C	10	10	0	20
Chicago B	Purdue C	0	10	0	10
Minnesota C	Nebraska	0	0	0	0
Macalester A	St. Thomas	0	10	0	10
Macalester B	Carleton	0	10	0	10
Minnesota A	Minnesota B	10	10	0	20
British Columbia B	Alberta	0	10	0	10
British Columbia C	British Columbia A	0	10	0	10
Washington A	British Columbia D	10	10	0	20
Simon Fraser	Washington B	10	10	0	20
Arizona State A	McGill D	10	10	0	20
Northwestern C	Arizona State B	0	0	0	0
Northwestern A	Northwestern B	10	10	0	20
Ohio	Rose State	10	10	0	20
Texas B	Texas A	10	10	0	20
Iowa	Tulsa	0	0	0	0
Alberta B	UCO	10	10	0	20
UTD B	UTD A	0	0	0	0
Wisconsin	Iowa State	0	10	0	10
UAB A	Alabama B	0	0	0	0
Georgia Tech D	Auburn A	10	10	0	20
Auburn B	Sewanee A	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech B	Georgia Tech A	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech C	Vanderbilt B	0	10	0	10
Huntsville A	Huntsville B	0	0	0	0
Alabama A	Mississippi State A	0	0	0	0
Cambridge C	Bristol B	0	10	0	10
Cambridge B	City St George's A	0	10	0	10
Imperial A	Sheffield B	10	10	0	20
LSE A	Imperial B	10	10	0	20
Manchester A	Durham B	10	10	0	20
Oxford A	Southampton A	10	10	0	20
Sheffield A	Durham A	10	10	0	20
Imperial C	Sheffield C	0	10	0	10
Southampton B	Oxford B	0	10	0	10
Bruin A	Vanderbilt A	10	10	0	20