Question
Building on the work of Nicole Oresme, members of this school formulated a physical reference variety of the “latitude of forms.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this university, whose namesake “Calculators” worked on theories of insolubles and developed the mean speed theorem.
ANSWER: University of Oxford [accept Merton College; accept the Oxford Calculators]
[10h] William of Heytsesbury documented the mean speed theorem in his book Rules for Solving [these statements]. Richard Kilvington collected many of these ambiguously true statements, such as “Socrates is whiter than Plato begins to be white.”
ANSWER: sophismata [accept Rules for Solving Sophisms]
[10e] Oxford logicians such as Thomas Bradwardine often wrote about logical puzzles such as sophismata and insolubles, which include this epistemic paradox that can be written as “this statement is false.”
ANSWER: liar paradox [or the liar’s paradox; accept the Epimenides paradox or the Cretan paradox]
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Summary
| 2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 8.00 | 80% | 0% | 0% |
Data
| You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |