Question
Three essays on truth by this thinker were collected by Liam Kofi Bright, who used this thinker’s concept of “conceptual decolonization” in his paper “White Psychodrama.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this author of Philosophy and an African Culture. Unlike an alphabetically-earlier philosopher, this philosopher claimed that the term onipa expressed a continuous character of personhood.
ANSWER: Kwasi Wiredu (That alphabetically-earlier thinker was Kwame Gyekye.)
[10e] Wiredu’s conceptual decolonisation argues against these things assumed by colonizing powers. A book by Wiredu is titled for the “cultural” type of these things, which are contrasted with particulars.
ANSWER: universals [accept Cultural Universals and Particulars]
[10m] In an essay on conceptual decolonization, Wiredu claimed that the term adwene (“AH-djeh-nay”) was categorically distinct from a conception formulated by this thinker. The Ethiopian philosopher Zera Yacob’s rationalist philosophy is often compared to this thinker’s methodology.
ANSWER: René Descartes [accept Cartesian dualism]
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Summary
| 2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 18.33 | 83% | 83% | 17% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 33% | 67% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 67% | 67% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 10.00 | 80% | 20% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 67% | 67% | 33% |
Data
| A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs | Cry of the Common Loon | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Berkeley | Stanford+ | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku | Where are the ACF Nationals recordings? | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |