Question
This thinker’s praeclarum theorema was proved by Bertrand Russell, who interpreted this thinker’s “exoteric” philosophy as a cover for an intensely logical system. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this thinker who drew on Chinese characters in imagining a universal language called the characteristica universalis. This inventor of the “stepped reckoner” machine wrote Théodicée.
ANSWER: Gottfried Leibniz
[10h] Leibniz often explained his hopes for a universal system of logic by imagining future philosophers resolving disputes with this exclamation. You may give common translations or the one-word Latin original.
ANSWER: “let us calculate!” [or “Calculemus!”; accept phrases that add words like “now” or “sir”]
[10m] Isaiah Berlin observed that exclaimers of “Calculemus!” hoped to pull the “trick” of “straightening” this material. This title material of a Berlin “history of ideas” was coined in Kant’s essay on an “Idea for a Universal History.”
ANSWER: crooked timber of humanity [accept “Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made”; or Krummholz or krummem Holze; prompt on timber or timber of humanity]
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Summary
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 15 | 12.67 | 87% | 40% | 0% |
Data
| I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Les Missourables | when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| The Oldest Men in the World | NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Punished "Venom" BHSU | BHSU B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | Lisan al-Quib | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| The Empire Bikes Back | We Need New Names | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| The Jeam Team | Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| The Dyatlov Passement incident | it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| LMM's LLM MLM | sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | var merchants | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |