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One philosopher described this field as “[trying] to define not the thoughts revealed in discourse” but as an attempt to define discourse itself. A book titled for this field classifies the letters A, Z, E, R, and T as a statement when listed in a typewriting manual but not when on a keyboard. That book titled for this field discusses how attention has turned to “phenomena of rupture” and has a section on “discursive regularities.” The Order of Things exemplifies one (-5[1])thinker’s (*) method named for this field, which preceded the genealogical (10[1])method (10[1])and is exemplified by a book titled for [this field] of Knowledge. It’s not geology, but this field uses stratigraphy to chronologically sort objects. For 10 (-5[1])points, Michel Foucault’s ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: archaeology [accept The Archaeology of Knowledge or L’archeologie du savoir; accept the archaeological method; prompt on knowledge or epistemology or savoir by asking “what other field is that book titled for?”]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Cade ReinbergerRIT AUNC A81-5
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Koji BilbaoDuke AUNC B12210

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