Question

Lewis Carroll argued that modus tollens arguments create infinite regresses in a paper titled “What [a competitor] Said to [this figure].” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this man. In a race proposed by an ancient Greek philosopher, this man cannot catch up to a tortoise given a head start because every time he runs to where the tortoise is, the tortoise moves some distance.
ANSWER: Achilles [or Achilleus; accept “What the Tortoise Said to Achilles”]
[10e] The race between Achilles and the tortoise is one of many of these statements that seemingly contradict themselves posited by the ancient thinker Zeno.
ANSWER: paradoxes [accept Zeno’s paradoxes]
[10h] This thinker reversed his earlier agreement with Zeno’s views of motion in his book Our Knowledge of the External World. This thinker formulated a paradox often illustrated with a barber who both shaves and does not shave himself.
ANSWER: Bertrand Russell [or Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell]
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BelmontAuburn A100010
Emory AClemson B010010
Georgia Tech BFurman010010
Georgia Tech BFurman010010
Georgia Tech BGeorgia Tech A1010020
Georgia Tech BGeorgia Tech A1010020
Georgia Tech BFurman010010
Georgia Tech BFurman010010
Georgia Tech BGeorgia Tech A1010020
Georgia Tech BGeorgia Tech A1010020
Georgia Tech DAlabama A10101030
Georgia Tech DAlabama A10101030
Georgia Tech DAlabama A10101030
Georgia Tech DAlabama A10101030
Georgia Tech DAlabama A10101030
Georgia Tech DAlabama A10101030
Georgia Tech DAlabama A10101030
Georgia Tech DAlabama A10101030
Georgia Tech EClemson A0101020
Georgia Tech EClemson A0101020
Georgia Tech EClemson A0101020
Georgia Tech EClemson A0101020
Georgia Tech EClemson A0101020
Georgia Tech EClemson A0101020
Georgia Tech EClemson A0101020
Georgia Tech EClemson A0101020
Mississippi State AGeorgia A1010020
South Carolina AGeorgia Tech C1010020
South Carolina BAuburn B1010020
SouthernVanderbilt A010010
Tennessee AVanderbilt B010010