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% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abbas I founded the Abbasids | The Unbearable Heaviness of History Players | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| UBC A | UBC B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | HE |
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% |