Alvin Plantinga - 2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell

Question

This thinker postulated the “Aquinas/Calvin Model,” which is an account of how belief in God is warranted. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this thinker whose “Victorious ontological argument” was created as part of a system eschewing evidence in believing in God.

ANSWER: Alvin Plantinga [or Alvin Carl Plantinga]

[10e] Plantinga described this thinker’s namesake “lapse” as believing that this is the best of all possible worlds. That belief by this thinker was repeated many times in Candide by Professor Pangloss, who was based on him.

ANSWER: Gottfried Leibniz [or Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz]

[10m] A work by Plantinga discusses the “Nature of” this concept. This is the second title concept of a book compiled from lectures at Princeton analyzed by Plantinga, which outlines rigid and flaccid designators.

ANSWER: necessity [accept The Nature of Necessity or Naming and Necessity]

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Summary


2024 ACF Regionals @ Berkeley	01/27/2024	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell	01/27/2024	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU	01/27/2024	Y	7	15.71	86%	43%	29%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Minnesota	01/27/2024	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska	01/27/2024	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers	01/27/2024	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial	01/27/2024	Y	1	30.00	100%	100%	100%

Data


Cornell C	Binghamton	10	0	10
Cornell A	RIT B	10	10	20
Cornell B	RIT A	10	0	10