Question
A "Stranger" named for this city appears in Plato's dialogue The Statesman. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this city. In a namesake Platonic dialogue, the founder of a philosophical school named for this city attacks the theory of forms with the "Third Man" infinite regress.
ANSWER: Elea [accept word forms like Eleatic; accept the Eleatic Stranger; accept the Eleatic School] (That dialogue is Plato's Parmenides.)
[10e] These rhetoricians, whom Socrates often criticizes for fallacious arguments, title the first Platonic dialogue to feature the Eleatic Stranger. Their name comes from the Greek for "wisdom."
ANSWER: Sophists [accept The Sophist or Sophista; accept word forms like Sophism]
[10m] Most dialogue in The Sophist occurs between the Eleatic Stranger and Theaetetus, the namesake of a Platonic dialogue that argues that this three-word phrase is equivalent to knowledge.
ANSWER: justified true belief [accept "orthos doxa with a logos" or true belief with an account; prompt on JTB by asking "what phrase does that stand for?"; reject partial answers]
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| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
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| 2025 PACE NSC | 06/07/2025 | Y | 42 | 12.62 | 62% | 55% | 10% |