Question
Charles Sanders Peirce (“purse”) was extremely fond of classifying things into groups of three. For 10 points each:
[10e] Peirce defined semiosis as a triadic relation involving one of these things plus its object and its interpretant. Semiotics is the study of these things.
ANSWER: signs
[10m] Two answers required. Peirce recognized three types of inference: deduction, and these two other similarly named types of inference.
ANSWER: induction AND abduction [accept answers in either order; accept inductive reasoning in place of “induction”; accept abductive reasoning in place of “abduction”]
[10h] In his metaphysics, Peirce theorized three forms of evolution: the love-based agapasm (“AG-uh-pasm”), the necessity-based anancasm (“ANN-in-kasm”), and this form, which he equated with Darwinian evolution.
ANSWER: tychasm [or tychastic evolution; accept tychism; accept tychasticism]
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Nationals | 04/22/2023 | Y | 21 | 11.90 | 71% | 43% | 5% |
Data
| UC Berkeley B | Columbia A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Columbia B | Indiana A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Cornell B | NYU A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Duke A | Chicago C | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Imperial A | UC Berkeley A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Illinois A | Michigan A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Minnesota B | Georgia Tech B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Chicago A | Penn A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Vanderbilt A | Rutgers A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Texas A | WUSTL B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Purdue A | Yale B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Chicago B | Johns Hopkins A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Florida A | Toronto A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| WUSTL A | South Carolina A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Ohio State A | Yale A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| MIT A | Georgia Tech A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Minnesota A | Houston A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Iowa State A | North Carolina A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Brown A | Northwestern A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Virginia A | Cornell A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Maryland A | Harvard A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |