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 @ Brandeis | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS Online | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Data
| throw away your cards, rally in the streets | CLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU! | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Thompson et al. | Aw we're so sorry to hear that maman died today, she gets five big booms | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| I wish it were possible to freeze time so I would never have to watch you retire | UBC | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |