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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

HeardPPBE %M %H %
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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
Birmingham BWarperial1001020ME
CambridgeOxford1001020ME
SouthamptonBath100010M
SouthperialBirmingham A001010E

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