Question
Benson Mates corrected a long-standing mistake by adding back a missing “if” in a Sextus Empiricus fragment of this group’s logic, which was largely forgotten until the 20th century. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this Hellenistic philosophical tradition whose members compared philosophy to an egg with logic on the outside. Marcus Aurelius was an adherent of this philosophical school.
ANSWER: Stoicism
[10m] The most prolific Stoic logician was said to have died laughing after seeing one of these animals eat figs. A potentially-satirical thought experiment considers one of these animals that is equally hungry and thirsty.
ANSWER: donkey [or ass; accept Buridan’s ass]
[10h] This Stoic thinker created a system of propositional logic with sayables as truth-bearers and supposedly uttered, “give the donkey… wine to wash down the figs” before dying.
ANSWER: Chrysippus
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Winter at Clemson | 2024-11-16 | Y | 9 | 16.67 | 100% | 56% | 11% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Clemson | 2024-11-16 | Y | 7 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State | 2024-11-16 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Data
| Michigan A | Ohio State A (UG) | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |