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

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