Question
During a debate on theology and this criterion, Anthony Flew used the “Parable of the Invisible Gardener” to show how it can be evaded via “death by a thousand qualifications.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this criterion of being able to be proven wrong, which Karl Popper introduced to differentiate science from non-science.
ANSWER: falsification [or falsifiability; or word forms of falsifying; prompt on being refutable or refutability]
[10h] In response, this thinker coined the term “blik” to describe meaningful beliefs that can’t be falsified. The approaches of “archangels” and “proles” are combined in the ethics of this author of The Language of Morals.
ANSWER: R.M. Hare [or Richard Mervyn Hare]
[10m] Hare’s example of a “blik” concerns a “lunatic” who thinks this place’s employees are trying to kill him. The first example of a “category mistake” in The Concept of Mind is about a visitor touring this place’s buildings.
ANSWER: Oxford University [or University of Oxford; prompt on the university or equivalents]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 24 | 16.25 | 100% | 50% | 13% |
Data
| Berkeley A | NYU | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Chicago C | Berkeley B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Brown | Toronto A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia A | Chicago A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Columbia B | Duke | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Cornell A | Chicago B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Florida | Toronto B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Illinois | Yale A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Minnesota A | Indiana | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Iowa State | Michigan | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Chicago D | Kentucky | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Johns Hopkins | Maryland | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Cornell B | McGill | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| North Carolina B | Minnesota B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| North Carolina A | Waterloo | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Northwestern | Georgia Tech | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Penn | Arizona State | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| WUSTL A | Purdue | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Rutgers | Yale B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Stanford | Texas | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Truman State | Harvard | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Vanderbilt | South Carolina | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Ottawa | Virginia | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| WUSTL B | Claremont Colleges | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |