Mohism - 2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T

Question

Marshall D. Willman identified a linguistic turn in this school, which explored a concept of intentionality and used linguistic analysis to argue for the justice of capital punishment. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this school, which developed standards for belief based on precedent, empirical evidence, and moral goodness of the belief. They used these three standards to attack belief in fatalism and justify belief in ghosts.

ANSWER: Mohism [accept Mohist school]

[10e] The Mohist standards heavily influenced this school of thought, which focuses on practical advice for rulers in texts like the Hán Fēizi.

ANSWER: Legalism [or Fǎjiā]

[10m] The linguistic analysis of the Mohist canon was also influential on members of the school of names, who developed a paradox about how a white one of these animals is not one of these animals.

ANSWER: horse [or mǎ]

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2024 ARCADIA at BU	2024-12-06	Y	2	15.00	50%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Duke	2024-12-06	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T	2024-12-06	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA Online	2025-05-17	Y	5	20.00	100%	80%	20%
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech	2024-12-06	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	2024-12-06	Y	2	15.00	50%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo	2024-11-09	Y	3	13.33	67%	33%	33%
2024 ARCADIA at GT	2024-12-06	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois	2024-11-09	Y	3	13.33	67%	67%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick	2024-12-06	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont	2024-11-02	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%

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Missouri	Truman	0	10	0	10
WashU	Squidward Community College	0	10	10	20