Packet 1: Bonus 17
Saul Kripke described a skeptical problem about meaning from this thinker by asking how one knows whether they mean “plus” or “quus” (“KWUHSS”) when using the plus sign. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this philosopher who described how meaning is shared through shared practices rather than private beliefs.
ANSWER: Ludwig Wittgenstein (“vitt-GEN-stein”)
[10h] Kripke’s plus vs. quus question highlights a form of this paradox from Philosophical Investigations. This paradox examines how finite patterns of past behavior can fix what one means by an expression in future cases.
ANSWER: rule-following paradox
[10e] Those arguments from Wittgenstein directly contrasted with this supervisor of his at Cambridge who asserted that meaning is grounded in logic. Along with Alfred North Whitehead, this thinker wrote Principia Mathematica.
ANSWER: Bertrand Russell
<Philosophy, Camden Williams> | VAULT II Packet 01
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 41 | 14.88 | 81% | 56% | 12% |
Conversion
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VAULT II at Georgia Tech | 2026-01-24 | ✓ | 6 | 16.67 | 83% | 83% | 0% |
| Triangle Cup | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| VAULT II at Eden Prairie HS | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 3 | 6.67 | 67% | 0% | 0% |
| VAULT II at McGill | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| VAULT II at UCSB | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 60% | 20% |
| VAULT II Northern UK | 2026-04-24 | ✓ | 3 | 13.33 | 67% | 67% | 0% |
| VAULT II Southern UK | 2026-04-24 | ✓ | 4 | 15.00 | 75% | 75% | 0% |
| VAULT II at Harvard | 2026-04-30 | ✓ | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| VAULT II at MINT | 2026-06-19 | ✓ | 5 | 2.00 | 20% | 0% | 0% |
| VAULT II Stanford Online | 2026-07-17 | ✓ | 8 | 23.75 | 100% | 88% | 50% |