Question
This principle was first proven by William of Soissons in the 12th century. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this principle that says that any statement can be derived from a contradiction.
ANSWER: principle of explosion [or principle of Pseudo-Scotus; or ex contradictione quodlibet]
[10h] Francisco Miró Quesada Canturias coined this term for any logic that rejects the principle of explosion. This type of logic is often confused with dialetheism (“dye-uh-LETH-ee-ism”).
ANSWER: paraconsistent logic [or paraconsistency]
[10e] Some philosophers have used paraconsistent logic to try to overcome the limitations of arithmetic that are thought to follow from this logician’s two incompleteness theorems.
ANSWER: Kurt Gödel [or Kurt Friedrich Gödel; accept Gödel’s incompleteness theorems]
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| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown A | Claremont A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Chicago A | Rutgers A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Columbia A | McGill A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Cornell A | UC Berkeley A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Cornell B | Minnesota B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech A | Duke A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Imperial A | Iowa State A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Indiana A | WUSTL A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| MIT A | Florida B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Maryland A | Houston A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Michigan A | Chicago C | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| North Carolina A | Johns Hopkins A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Ohio State A | Rutgers B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Penn A | Minnesota A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Penn State A | Illinois A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Purdue A | Florida A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Stanford A | Georgia Tech B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Toronto A | South Carolina A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Vanderbilt A | Harvard A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Yale A | WUSTL B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Yale B | Columbia B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |