Bonus
A book by this philosopher was published posthumously in translation by his student G. E. M. Anscombe. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this philosopher whose “late” work at Cambridge is exemplified by his Philosophical Investigations, which contradicts much of his “early” Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.
ANSWER: Ludwig Wittgenstein (“VIT-gen-shtyne”)
[10h] While early Wittgenstein’s “picture theory” of meaning holds that meaningful statements refer to “atomic facts,” late Wittgenstein held that a word’s meaning depends on how it is used in one of these constructs.
ANSWER: language games [or sprachspiele; reject “games”]
[10e] The so-called “middle Wittgenstein” focused on the philosophy of this field, inspired by L. E. J. Brouwer. Isaac Newton wrote a “Principia” of this field.
ANSWER: mathematics [accept Principia Mathematica]
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| Editions | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
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| 2 | 39 | 15.38 | 95% | 56% | 3% |
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| UK (South) | UK | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Northern California | US | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Southern California | US | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| Eastern Canada (1) | US | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| Eastern Canada (2) | US | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| Great Lakes | US | Y | 6 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 50% | 100% | 50% |
| Midwest | US | Y | 6 | 15.00 | 83% | 67% | 0% |
| North | US | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Northeast | US | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| Pacific | US | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |
| Southeast | US | Y | 6 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |