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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2023 Penn Bowl @ Waterloo10/28/2023Y410.00100%0%0%
2023 Penn Bowl @ FSU10/28/2023Y215.00100%50%0%
2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard)10/21/2023Y110.00100%0%0%
2023 Penn Bowl (Mainsite)10/21/2023Y120.00100%100%0%
2023 Penn Bowl (Norcal)10/28/2023Y210.00100%0%0%
2023 Penn Bowl (South Central)10/28/2023Y310.00100%0%0%
2023 Penn Bowl (UK)10/28/2023Y518.00100%40%40%

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StanfordBerkeley A100010
Berkeley CBerkeley B100010