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 an argument is absurd without further reasoning. (10[2])Thomas Aquinas used logical impossibility for a solution (10[1])to a paradox named for these objects (10[1])that concerned God’s omnipotence. (10[1]-5[1])A work of existentialism (10[1])claims that pauses between a man’s use of one of these objects makes him (10[1])“superior to his fate” and that, during his pauses, (10[1])we must “imagine him happy.” (10[2])For 10 points, an Albert Camus work described the absurdity of Sisyphus pushing what kind of (10[1])object up a mountain? (10[1])■END■

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