Question
A 2023 Lukas Verburgt book makes the dual claims that this thinker was simultaneously a forerunner of British pragmatism and the link between the Cambridge school and later analytical philosophers. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this thinker, who is best remembered for his namesake diagrams which show two circles and their intersection.
ANSWER: John Venn [or Venn diagrams]
[10m] Venn adopted Alexander Bain’s definition of this concept as the readiness to act. Responding to W. K. Clifford, a thinker distinguished between dead and living hypotheses, arguing that because most are “hardly living,” this concept is rarely forced.
ANSWER: belief
[10h] This thinker opposed Venn’s frequency theory of probability because it could not be a guide to life. He argued that probability was numerical representations of individuals' confidence in the paper “Truth and Probability.”
ANSWER: Frank Ramsey
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Summary
| 2023 Penn Bowl @ Waterloo | 10/28/2023 | Y | 4 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl @ FSU | 10/28/2023 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard) | 10/21/2023 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Mainsite) | 10/21/2023 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Norcal) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (South Central) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (UK) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 40% | 40% |
Data
| MIT | Brown | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |