Question
In Perceiving: a Philosophical Study, Roderick Chisholm defends the thesis that this property must be the “mark of the mental” because this property’s phenomena can never be reduced to behavior. For 10 points each,
[10h] Name this property, the quality of a mental state “being about something” or having contents. This term was introduced to philosophy of mind by Franz Brentano.
ANSWER: intentionality [reject “intention”]
[10m] A book by this philosopher built on Chisholm’s analysis of intentionality and introduced a dilemma between its irreducibility and physicalist ontology. That book introduced this philosopher’s idea of the “indeterminacy of translation.”
ANSWER: Willard Van Orman Quine (The book is Word and Object.)
[10e] Chisholm tied intentionality to neutrality about this property. In predicate logic, this property is bestowed by its namesake quantifier symbolized by a backwards E.
ANSWER: existence [accept word forms like exist]
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Summary
| 2023 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | Premiere | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Carleton University | Premiere | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Claremont Colleges | Premiere | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Indiana | Premiere | Y | 5 | 8.00 | 60% | 20% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at RIT | Premiere | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 0% | 100% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at WUSTL | Premiere | Y | 3 | 3.33 | 33% | 0% | 0% |
Data
| Cornell MATLAB | Cornell R | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| RIT | Syracuse+Rochester | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |