Tomfoolery and Philosophy
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100

What is the first and last name of the philosopher who developed the categorical imperative? 

Who is Immanuel Kant?

100

Why are advantage counterplans competitive?

What is net benefits?

100

Why does the value of justice outweigh morality? Give two reasons - you have thirty second.

What are various answers?

100

What are the first seven digits of pi?

What are 3.1415926?

100
What is the theoretical, full definition of a permutation? 

What is a test of competition which includes all of the affirmative and all or parts of the alternative? 

200

What is solipsism?

What is the belief that only the self-exists and anything else is merely imaginary?

200

What is the proper lab-developed name for a component of a counterplan which generates competition?

What is the net-benny?

200

A Russian-Jewish individual from Florida who is known for their propensity for tricky arguments a few years ago?

Who is Sam Azbel?

200

Where is Barack Obama's hometown?

What is Hawaii or Chicago?

200

Who is the lankiest individual to every exist?

Who is Robby Gillespie?

300

Who was the philosopher who modified Kant's philosophy and influenced Marx?

Who is Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel?

300

If the uniqueness of the affirmative advantage is extremely high and the time frame is very soon they have access to what useful weighing argument? 

What is try or die?

300

List at least three alternative voters to fairness and education.

What are various responses?

300

What is the European Union? What country is currently intending to exit?

What is a union of European countries built to create the euro, eurozone, and otherwise? What is the United Kingdom?

300

What is the labor theory of value?

What is a theory of value based upon the labor and input of the worker rather than supply and demand? 

400

Explain the hijack which results in an agonism framework which claims that inevitable violence justifies democracy being turned into a justification for Hobbes.

What is due to the situation of inevitable violence a sovereign is necessary to describe meaning? 

400

It's the Daily Double! The panel is Bob Overing, Danielle Dosch, and Tom Evnen. The affirmative has been disclosed as a whole resolution Kant affirmative which includes the environmentalism arguments on this topic. You have five minutes to develop a comprehensive 1NC strategy which adapts to the judges. But you know that on this day they're not interested in hearing theory.

Panel decision. 
400

You have thirty seconds to write a properly worded interpretation that amounts to "spikes bad"!

A variety of potential responses are correct.

400

This is the landmark decision that gave personhood to corporations.

What is Citizens United? 

400

Recite and explain the permutation double-bind!

What is...long?

500

What is the Image of Thought? Whose philosophy does it belong to? 

What is a preconceived notion about the nature of thought? Who is Gilles Deleuze?

500

What are the stock issues in policy or LARP debate?

What are significance, harms, inherency, topicality, solvency?

500

The 1AC has claimed that all negative interpretations are counter-interpretations, that the negative does not get RVIs, and that 1AR theory is legitimate. Why ought justice be brought upon the affirmative?

What is...JUSTICE?!?


500

What is monism? Describe both an example of a philosopher who shares this belief and one who disagrees with it?

Many possible responses?

500

You have two minutes to write an analytical critique, from any position, of an affirmative which defends giving legal personhood to natural ecosystems in order to allow the free-market to resolve problems.

What is anything?