Round 1: Tossup 14

To address a problem often named for this kind of object, James Ross argues that it fails to consider a possible “state of affairs,” while Alvin Plantinga considers a being called “McEar” who can only scratch his ear. A passage involving one of these objects in a biography by James Boswell names (10[1])a logical fallacy of claiming an argument is absurd (10[1])without further reasoning. Thomas Aquinas used (10[1])logical impossibility for a solution to a paradox named for these objects that concerned God’s omnipotence. A work of existentialism claims that pauses between a man’s use of one of these objects makes him “superior to his fate” and that, during his pauses, we must “imagine him happy.” For 10 points, an Albert Camus work described the absurdity of Sisyphus pushing what kind of object up a mountain? ■END■

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