Packet 4: Bonus 1
A 1903 book argues that because yellowness is a “simple notion,” it may be subject to this error. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this error critiqued by the open-question argument, which is used to show that moral properties cannot be defined using properties like “pleasure.”
ANSWER: naturalistic fallacy
[10e] The naturalistic fallacy is often erroneously used to articulate this philosophical problem first identified by David Hume. This problem concerns deriving normative statements from descriptive statements.
ANSWER: is-ought problem [accept Hume’s guillotine; accept fact-value distinction]
[10h] This book calls the naturalistic fallacy a “spectacular misnomer” for misusing the word “naturalistic.” This 1985 Bernard Williams book criticizes systematizations of morality, which it calls a “peculiar institution.”
ANSWER: Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy
<AM, Philosophy> | NAFTA-Packet-4
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 38 | 13.68 | 79% | 50% | 8% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berkeley A | Team 7 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Constans Constantius and Constantine Jr. | Stanford A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Not Old! (Old) | Stanford B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Team 8 | Berkeley B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 NAFTA at Stanford | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 15.00 | 75% | 75% | 0% |
| 2026 NAFTA at UBC | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 3 | 10.00 | 33% | 33% | 33% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✓ | 4 | 7.50 | 50% | 25% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Maryland | 09/27/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 8.00 | 80% | 0% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Harvard | 10/04/2025 | ✓ | 3 | 16.67 | 67% | 67% | 33% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Oxford | 10/11/2025 | ✓ | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Chicago | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 6 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Columbia | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 16.00 | 80% | 60% | 20% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Richmond | 12/20/2025 | ✓ | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |