languages - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

Answer the following about the work of the aptly-named philosopher John Wisdom, who is credited with the first use of the term “analytic philosophers,” for 10 points each.

[10m] Wisdom’s influence peaked during the heyday of a movement named for the “ordinary” type of these things. A work translated by G. E. M. Anscombe argued one of these things cannot be understood by just a single person.

ANSWER: languages [accept private language; accept ordinary language philosophy]

[10h] In his first book, Wisdom contrasts interpretation and analysis with a quote from this book about time. After discussing a quote from this book, another thinker imagines giving a shopkeeper a slip reading “five red apples.”

ANSWER: Confessions of St. Augustine [or Confessiones]

[10e] Because they were both at Cambridge, Wisdom’s work in the 1940s were interpreted as the new ideas of this Austrian-born philosopher until the posthumous publication of his book Philosophical Investigations.

ANSWER: Ludwig Wittgenstein [or Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein]

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Summary


California (South)	Main Site	Y	4	12.50	75%	50%	0%
Canada	Main Site	Y	10	14.00	100%	40%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	1	0.00	0%	0%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	6	6.67	50%	17%	0%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	8	15.00	88%	50%	13%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	5	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
UK	Main Site	Y	12	14.17	100%	42%	0%

Data


UC Santa Barbara	Arizona State	10	0	10	20
UC Irvine	UCSD C	0	0	0	0
UCLA A	UCSD B	10	0	10	20
UCLA B	UCSD A	0	0	10	10
Brock	Toronto D	0	0	10	10
Carleton University	Toronto Metropolitan	0	0	10	10
Guelph	McMaster A	0	0	10	10
Toronto B	Queen's	0	0	10	10
UBC B	Ottawa	10	0	10	20
Waterloo A	McGill A	10	0	10	20
Toronto G	Western B	0	0	10	10
Toronto E	Simon Fraser	10	0	10	20
Liberty B	NC State B	0	0	0	0
Liberty C	North Carolina A	0	0	0	0
North Carolina C	Liberty A	0	0	10	10
VCU	South Carolina A	0	0	0	0
North Carolina B	South Carolina B	0	0	0	0
Virginia	Virginia Tech A	10	0	10	20
William and Mary	Virginia Tech B	0	0	10	10
Waterloo B	Toronto F	10	0	10	20
UBC A	McGill B	0	0	10	10
Chicago B	Chicago D	0	0	10	10
Illinois A	Illinois C	10	0	10	20
Indiana A	Northwestern B	10	0	10	20
Purdue B	Northwestern C	0	0	10	10
Notre Dame B	Northwestern D	0	0	0	0
Illinois B	Purdue A	10	0	10	20
Chicago A	Chicago C	10	10	10	30
Brandeis B	MIT	0	0	10	10
Brown	Yale	0	0	10	10
Carleton College	Iowa State	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech A	Missouri A	10	0	10	20
Washington A	Claremont	0	0	10	10
Harvard A	Bowdoin A	0	0	10	10
Southern Connecticut State	Bowdoin B	0	0	10	10
Brandeis A	Harvard B	0	0	10	10
Birmingham	LSE	0	0	10	10
Cambridge A	Imperial A	0	0	10	10
Cambridge B	Manchester	0	0	10	10
Oxford C	Cambridge C	10	0	10	20
Durham	Imperial B	10	0	10	20
Edinburgh A	Bristol	10	0	10	20
Southampton A	Edinburgh B	10	0	10	20
Imperial C	Cardiff	0	0	10	10
UCL	Montpellier	0	0	10	10
Southampton B	Oxford B	0	0	10	10
Oxford A	Warwick A	10	0	10	20
City St. George's	Warwick B	0	0	10	10
Chicago E	Indiana B	0	0	10	10