Question

A thinker from this country invented the first categorial grammar, which he co-names with Yehoshua Bar-Hillel. Anita and Solomon Feferman wrote a definitive 2004 biography of a thinker from this country who argued that “logical notions” must be permutation invariant on a domain. A thinker who led a philosophical school in this nation developed a “calculus of names” and founded the subfield (15[1])of mereology. (15[2])Aristotle’s (*) sea battle argument inspired a thinker from this country to develop the first three-valued logic. (10[2])This nation names both a style (10[1])of prefix (10[1])and a (10[1])“reverse” style (10[1])of postfix logical notation. A logician from this nation defended the view that a statement in an object language is true if and only if it’s true in the metalanguage, his semantic theory of truth. For 10 points, Alfred Tarski and Jan Łukasiewicz (“yahn woo-kah-SHAY-veech”) belonged to what nation’s Lvov–Warsaw School? ■END■

ANSWER: Poland [or Polska] (The unnamed thinkers are Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz and Stanisław Leśniewski.)
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Jerry VinokurovTeach Us to Outgrow Our LadnessThe anti-STOON-dahl cabal (the tall Keyal et al.)6115
Taylor HarveySaint Peter Andre 3000Curse you, Periplus the Platypus!6315
Jordan BrownsteinThe Plague (anime)" was redirected to: "Oran High School Host ClubI prefer really not to speak. If I speak I’m in big trouble6315
Vincent DuQuasicrystal SilenceDon't be Afraid, the Clown's Afraid Too7910
Joel Miles[moderator voice] yes that is so tenpointscore! is your team feeling bonuspilled?In Search of Things Past7910
Eric Bobrowwave2: trimming membership codes 9655377758gpHang et al., Robert Browning8510
Aseem KeyalThe Catastrophic Implosion of Packet SubI would prefer not to8710
Mike SoriceTeam Name Think DetailRomanos IV Diogenes’ Macaroni Grill8910
Chris SimsThe Canadiansremembrance of lost time9110

Summary

2023 Chicago Open08/05/2023Y9100%33%0%77.44