space AND time - 2024 ACF Winter at UBC

Question

Two answers required. A thought experiment by a thinker arguing for a substantivalist approach to these concepts imagines a bucket filled with water undergoing rotational motion. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name these two concepts that Immanuel Kant claimed were pure intuitions and a priori forms of outer and inner sense.

ANSWER: space AND time [accept spacetime]

[10e] The bucket argument was included in this Enlightenment thinker’s Principia Mathematica, which also contained his three laws of motion.

ANSWER: Isaac Newton

[10h] One thinker argued against Newton’s absolute space by considering shifts in the universe and then appealing to this principle, sometimes named for him. This principle states if two things have exactly the same properties, they are the same.

ANSWER: identity of indiscernibles [accept Leibniz’s law]

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Summary


2024 ACF Winter at Clemson	2024-11-16	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh	2024-11-16	Y	6	11.67	100%	0%	17%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	Y	8	16.25	100%	38%	25%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	Y	6	11.67	100%	17%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at UBC	2024-11-16	Y	2	25.00	100%	50%	100%
2024 Penn Bowl Chicago	11/02/2024	N	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl Harvard	10/26/2024	N	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl UK	10/26/2024	N	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%

Data


UBC A	UW B	10	10	10	30
UW A	SFU	0	10	10	20