Question
In one work, this thinker used the example of christening a ship the “Queen Elizabeth” while smashing a bottle to illustrate “performative utterances.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this thinker, who discussed speech acts in How To Do Things With Words.
ANSWER: J. L. Austin [or John Langshaw Austin]
[10h] In How To Do Things With Words, Austin used this word to describe the part of the speech act that causes a certain effect on the hearer, in contrast to the illocutionary force of what the speaker is saying.
ANSWER: perlocutionary act [accept word forms; reject “locutionary (act)”]
[10e] In his Philosophical Papers, Austin claimed statements have this property when the statement correlates with the “historic state of affairs.” Namesake “tables” are often used to analyze if statements have this property.
ANSWER: truth [or true; accept correspondence theory of truth or truth tables]
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Summary
| 2024 Booster Shot (Columbia) | 02/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 11.67 | 83% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (Great Lakes) | 03/09/2024 | Y | 6 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (Great Lakes) | 03/09/2024 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (Vanderbilt) | 03/02/2024 | Y | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 75% | 25% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (WUSTL) | 03/09/2024 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (Waterloo) | 02/23/2024 | Y | 4 | 22.50 | 100% | 100% | 25% |
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| Toronto Tony Jingyu Chen eats quizbowl | Ottawa | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Toronto Penguin World War | Toronto Sprout | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Toronto cDNA | Toronto Pilk | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Waterloo Cali | Waterloo Bust | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |