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100

The three-word definition of "covenant."

What is "sacred family bond"?

100

The greatest of the scholastics, who incorporated Aristotle into his authoritative synthesis of all prior philosophy, distinguished philosophy from theology, and combated the double truth theory.

Who is S. Thomas Aquinas?

100

The error in the following argument: "Bars are places to buy drinks.  Jail cells have bars.  Therefore jail cells have places to buy drinks."

What is equivocation?

100

A form of logic in which statements can be somewhere between true and false.

What is fuzzy logic?

100

Origen, Boethius, Avicenna, Peter Abelard, Roger Bacon, and many other philosophers ended up in here.

What is the Slammer?

200

The Abrahamic covenant included a promise of a land and a nation, which was later fulfilled by this covenant.

What is the Mosaic covenant?

200

While Aristotle said that these exist not on their own but in the mind and in individuals, Roscelin of Compiegne and William of Ockham denied that they exist at all.

What are universals?

200

The fallacy which holds that what is true of the whole is true of the parts.

What is the fallacy of division?

200

This philosopher believed early on in the picture theory of language but later changed his mind to believe that "meaning is use."

Who is Ludwig Wittgenstein?

200

Select another question.  The team that answers will be going gaga if correct (+200 pts), but will be in a blue funk if wrong (-200 pts).

If this is the last question picked, the first team to press its buzzer gets 200 points.

400

This major covenant was the only one not involving a sacrifice.

What is the Adamic covenant?

400

According to the Arabic philosophers, this emanation of the One bestows forms both on material things and on the human mind.

What is the agent intellect?

400

The relation between statements which cannot both be true and cannot both be false (in other words, if either one is true then the other one is false).

What is contradiction?

400

Truth is defined as the absence of counterexamples for statements that use this kind of implication.

What is material implication?

400

The rest of Canada makes jokes that are intended to insult the intelligence of this group of people.

What are Newfies?

600

The Davidic covenant included a promise that the son of David would be this, which had previously been given only to the nation of Israel as a whole.

What is a son of God?

600

He said that certainty is the result of an illumination from God.

Who is S. Augustine?

600

The error in the following argument: 

(1) Since it is bad to hold power without having authority, kings are bad.

(2) Those who are bad have no authority.

(3) Therefore, kings have no authority.

What is circular reasoning?

600

C. S. Pierce gave this name to the infinite interpretive activity from which (according to him) meaning arises.

What is "semiosis"?

600

The Andrew Lloyd Webber musical about Joseph mentioned by Fr. Joe.

What is Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat?

1000

The literal meaning of the Hebrew "akedah," which refers to the sacrifice of Isaac by Abraham.

What is "binding"?

1000

The philosopher condemned for teaching that God the Father creates ideas in the mind of the Logos, that creation is an emanation from God, and that God cannot know himself except through creation.

Who is John Scotus Erigena?

1000

The five predicables.

What are species, genus, specific difference, property, and accident?

1000

The name (not just the English interpretation) of the statement depicted below in symbolic logic:

¬(P ∧ ¬P)

What is "the law of non-contradiction"?

1000

The question whose answer is the answer to the question "What is the answer to this question?"

What is "What is the answer to this question?"?