therapy - 2025 NAFTA

Packet 3: Bonus 16

Alice Crary and Rupert Read’s The New Wittgenstein collects interpretations that claim Wittgenstein’s work employs this sort of approach, rather than advancing a metaphysical project. For 10 points each:

[10h] Quietists treat philosophy as having what purpose, thereby untangling linguistic confusions? Philosophical Investigations contains the claim that “there is not a singular philosophical method,” only types of these approaches.

ANSWER: therapy [or therapies; or therapeutic approach; prompt on descriptions of philosophy as healing or remedial]

[10e] Cora Diamond and James Conant’s contributions to The New Wittgenstein extend a therapeutic reading to this book’s discussion of nonsense. Wittgenstein titled this book after a “theologico-political” work by Spinoza.

ANSWER: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus [accept the Tractatus or TLP or Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlung or Logical-Philosophical Treatise]

[10m] Diamond’s therapeutic interpretation asserts that most readers of the Tractatus “chicken out” of this action. In the penultimate proposition of the Tractatus, Wittgenstein tells readers to take this metaphorical action and “surmount” all prior propositions.

ANSWER: throwing away the ladder [accept descriptions of discarding one’s ladder]

<HA, Philosophy> | NAFTA-Packet-3

Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
43	16.05	95%	42%	23%

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Conversion

Team	Opponent	Part 1	Part 2	Part 3	Total	Parts
(give me an) ANSWER: die for baseball	BHSU	10	10	10	30	HEM
Abbas I founded the Abbasids	The Unbearable Heaviness of History Players	0	10	0	10	E
Berkeley B	Not Old! (Old)	10	10	0	20	HE
C R A B S	Dielectrical Materialism	0	10	0	10	E
Capital One in the Twenty-First Century	Surrealist Subcommandante Marcos be like Esto no es una pipa	0	10	10	20	EM
Constans Constantius and Constantine Jr.	Berkeley A	0	10	10	20	EM
Copán Seethe	David Foster Gromit	0	10	10	20	EM
Dour Straits	H Charlson's Washed Up Scrubs	10	10	0	20	HE
Georgia Tech 𓂈𓆉𓃡	Say It Ain't Zhou	0	10	10	20	EM
I'm just here (being trivia club president) so I won't get fined	Guelph Cloze	0	10	10	20	EM
In the Mood for Transportation Equipment	Northwestern	0	10	0	10	E
Indiana	Execute Order 6 7	0	10	0	10	E
It's something unpredictable/that in the end is right/please refrain from e-mailing my wife	Polish Orthographers Posting Their Łs	0	10	10	20	EM
Lex	The Worst Trade Deal in the History of Trade Deals	10	10	10	30	HEM
Licence to C. Wright Mill	Where's the nearest library, I need to have a public crashout.	0	10	10	20	EM
Maryland F♯ A♯ ∞	Catholic University A	0	10	0	10	E
Munir Siddiqui Fan Club	Mike and Psmith	0	10	0	10	E
Muscle Mass Extinction Event	1000000 Delinquents	10	10	10	30	HEM
NYU A	Habitat 67	10	10	10	30	HEM
Noah Sheidlower	Shipping Down from Ballston	0	10	0	10	E
Penn State	UNC Charity	0	10	10	20	EM
Quebecois Olga Tokarczuk be like 'freins de jacob interdits'	Invective Against Swans	10	10	0	20	HE
Rosslyn Academic Team	Contessa Dora	0	10	0	10	E
Stanford A	Team 7	0	10	0	10	E
Strange Case of Dr. Joker and Mr. Pennywise	Licence to Bill	0	10	10	20	EM
Team 8	Stanford B	0	10	10	20	EM
The "C" Team	Six Quizbowlers in Search of Owen Minmo	0	10	0	10	E
The Fire Neg Time	consumption smoothing by borrowing future big law income	0	10	0	10	E
The Saint-Straw that Broke the Camille's Back	Middlesex County Fetty Wap Fan Club	0	10	0	10	E
The Third Time when she was Given to Answer the Hard and the Easy, and Answered Only the Easy	A Neg of Beauty is a Joy Forever	0	10	0	10	E
The Umayyad Caliphate be like REPEAL NAPHTHA	Ana Pauker? I hardly know her!	0	10	10	20	EM
The lion does not concern itself with negging teammates out of their own categories	I fear not the man who has reviewed 10000 cards once, but I fear the man who has reviewed one card 10000 times	0	10	0	10	E
The tram is not in service; please use the moving walkway.	Chicago !A	10	10	0	20	HE
UBC A	UBC B	10	10	0	20	HE
UTK	Girls who Just Want to Have Fun + Liam	0	0	10	10	M
Untitled Keyal Team	Negged Five Times in a Yellow Cab Against the Gottis and Gambinos	10	10	10	30	HEM
Untitled by Alexander McQueen by Premeditated Chaos by Alexander McQueen by Percival Everett	NYU B or not NYU B (that is the question)	0	10	0	10	E
Vacuous Tortoise	No Country for Old Quizzers	0	10	0	10	E
W&L+Friend	[Redacted]	0	0	0	0
WashU	St. Marx	0	10	0	10	E
You Don't Have the Cards	William of Baskerville attempts to investigate John P. Robarts, gets turned away for not having a student card	0	10	0	10	E
four high school generalists shock natives with fluent stock in Tocharian B	Maybe Ever	0	10	0	10	E
https://i.imgur.com/C6nN2FE.png	JHU	0	10	10	20	EM

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
2026 NAFTA at Stanford	01/17/2026	✓	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
2026 NAFTA at UBC	01/17/2026	✓	2	15.00	100%	0%	50%
2025 NAFTA Online	02/14/2026	✓	4	12.50	75%	25%	25%
2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt	02/14/2026	✓	3	16.67	67%	100%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Toronto	09/13/2025	✓	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Maryland	09/27/2025	✓	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Harvard	10/04/2025	✓	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Oxford	10/11/2025	✓	4	12.50	100%	0%	25%
2025 NAFTA at Chicago	11/08/2025	✓	6	20.00	100%	33%	67%
2025 NAFTA at Columbia	11/08/2025	✓	5	18.00	100%	40%	40%
2025 NAFTA at Richmond	12/20/2025	✓	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%