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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Summary
| 2024 ACF Fall at Cornell | fall | Y | 9 | 21.11 | 100% | 78% | 33% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State | fall | Y | 8 | 13.75 | 88% | 38% | 13% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Georgia | fall | Y | 13 | 17.69 | 92% | 54% | 31% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina | fall | Y | 9 | 13.33 | 100% | 22% | 11% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges | fall | Y | 4 | 25.00 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Illinois | fall | Y | 9 | 18.89 | 100% | 78% | 11% |
Data
| Appalachian State A | Virginia Tech B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Appalachian State B | William & Mary | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| James Madison A | Duke B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Liberty B | James Madison B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| NC State | UNC C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Liberty A | Tusculum | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| UNC D | UNC A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Virginia Tech A | UNC B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Virginia | Duke A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |