Question
A “correspondence” theory of this concept depends on a statement’s relation to the world. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this concept, tables of which can be constructed to analyze logical statements.
ANSWER: truth
[10m] This type of truth is a tautology, or always true, because the antecedent in this type of statement can never be satisfied. A conditional statement which expresses this type of truth is, “if Tokyo is in France, then the Eiffel Tower is in Bolivia.”
ANSWER: vacuous truth
[10h] This theory holds that statements about the past and present can be true because it’s real, but there are no true statements about the future because it is not yet real.
ANSWER: growing block theory
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Summary
| 2023 ILLIAC (Cornell) | 2023-10-21 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2023 ILLIAC (Mainsite) | 2023-10-21 | Y | 8 | 13.75 | 100% | 38% | 0% |
Data
| WUSTL | Chicago B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Chicago C | SIUE B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Ohio State C | Michigan B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Purdue A | Missouri | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Ohio State A | Purdue B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Michigan A | Ohio State B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Chicago A | Purdue C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Chicago D | SIUE A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |