Round 9: 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. (-5[1])A passage involving one of these objects in a biography by James Boswell names a logical fallacy of claiming an (10[1])argument is absurd without further reasoning. (-5[1])Thomas Aquinas used logical impossibility for a solution to a paradox (10[1])named for these objects that concerned God’s omnipotence. (10[1])A work of existentialism (-5[1])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 (10[1])“imagine him happy.” (10[1])For 10 (10[1])points, (10[1])an Albert (10[3])Camus work described the absurdity of Sisyphus pushing what kind of object up a mountain? ■END■ (10[2])

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