Question
Some theories which solve this problem may themselves face the “tacking paradox,” also known as the irrelevant conjunction problem. After his original solution to this problem was criticized for containing outside information, I. J. Good created the example of an infinitely intelligent newborn baby. The paper which describes this problem rejects the converse consequence condition, and follows it with an example of pure ice not turning yellow in a flame test. This problem relies on the (*) equivalence condition and Nicod’s criterion, which states that universal generalizations are supported by their instances. First laid out in “Studies in the Logic of Confirmation,” this problem results in almost all observations confirming its central hypothesis. For 10 points, name this paradox by Carl Hempel, which concludes that the existence of green apples confirms the claim that certain birds are black. ■END■
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Jananan Arulseelan | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | 85 | -5 |
Elijah Mandelbaum | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | 90 | -5 |
Erik Christensen | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | 90 | -5 |
Rayton Lin | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | 110 | -5 |
Colin Veevers | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | 137 | 10 |
Benjamin Chapman | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | 137 | 10 |
Aaron Dos Remedios | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | 137 | 0 |
Raymond Chen | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | 137 | 0 |
Summary
2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 67% | 103.33 |
2024 ARGOS Online | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 93.33 |
2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 88.67 |
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 40% | 0% | 80% | 137.00 |
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 115.33 |
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 40% | 126.50 |
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 85.33 |