Group A · Match 02
Result 1-2. Outcome: ELA (Henry David Thoreau).
Turn 1. Pass. Queen David Bohm re-centers the question.
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Turn 2. Knight asks: "What assumption are we testing if knight keeps the focus here?"
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Turn 3. Advance. Checked Queen David Bohm develops the line.
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Turn 4. Knight asks: "What assumption are we testing if knight keeps the focus here?"
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Turn 5. Pass. "It is only with reluctance that man's desire for knowledge endures a dualism of this kind."
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Turn 6. Knight asks: "What assumption are we testing if knight keeps the focus here?"
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Turn 7. Bishop answers: "I need not enumerate the actual results which the last century gained by this work."
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Turn 8. Bishop answers: "It is beginning to reach down from observation to experimental analysis, and from experimental analysis to grasp of principle."
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Turn 9. Knight asks: "Natural philosophy, which preceded all exact observation in antiquity, is a natural, but not unfrequently ill-directed, effort of reason?"
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Turn 10. Bishop answers: "In pre-human evolution, the blind chances of variation and the blind sifting of natural selection have directed the course of evolution and of progress."
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Turn 11. Bishop answers: "He had probably never dipped very deep in the latter subject, and that strengthened our doubts."
\nThe challenge gives the next answer real work to do.
Turn 12. Bishop answers: "The one, that is to say, remained in essence a quantitative change so far as concerns the real life of man; the other can be a qualitative change."
\nThe challenge gives the next answer real work to do.
Turn 13. Advance. Queen David Bohm develops the line.
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Turn 14. Pass. Julian Huxley releases to King Henry David Thoreau, who re-centers the question.
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Turn 15. Challenge. Checked Queen David Bohm tests the opposing line.
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Turn 16. Advance. Henry David Thoreau releases to Queen Buddha, who develops the line.
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Turn 17. Bishop answers: "We now know that many of these hypotheses, which found favour in their day, far overshot the mark."
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Turn 18. Advance. Checked Queen Buddha develops the line.
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Turn 19. Bishop answers: "Owing to the Reformation, intellectual life had lost its old stability and cohesion; everything appeared in a new light, and new questions arose."
\nThe challenge gives the next answer real work to do.
Turn 20. Knight asks: "What assumption are we testing if Buddha keeps the focus here?"
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Turn 21. Bishop answers: "I need not enumerate the actual results which the last century gained by this work."
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Turn 22. Bishop answers: "I can defend it on this basis, and that is why this answer matters."
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Turn 23. Knight asks: "If this line is valid, what would it imply for the other side to justify now?"
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Turn 24. Bishop answers: "I can defend it on this basis, and that is why this answer matters."
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Turn 25. Advance. Queen David Bohm develops the line.
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Turn 26. Knight asks: "What assumption are we testing if Stephen Jay Gould keeps the focus here?"
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Turn 27. Challenge. Checked Queen David Bohm tests the opposing line.
\nThe challenge gives the next answer real work to do.
Turn 28. Knight asks: "What assumption are we testing if knight keeps the focus here?"
\nThe challenge gives the next answer real work to do.
Turn 29. Save. Checked Queen David Bohm is denied closure.
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Turn 30. Pass. Jacques Monod releases to King Henry David Thoreau, who re-centers the question.
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Turn 31. Advance. Checked Queen David Bohm develops the line.
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Turn 32. Advance. Henry David Thoreau releases to Queen Buddha, who develops the line.
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Turn 33. Knight asks: "If this line is valid, what would it imply for the other side to justify now?"
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Turn 34. Bishop answers: "Let’s take that test seriously; here is how it holds together."
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Turn 35. Knight asks: "If this line is valid, what would it imply for the other side to justify now?"
\nThe challenge gives the next answer real work to do.
Turn 36. Bishop answers: "Men are educated to be self-reliant and enterprising in the details of life, but dependent, unreflective, _laissez-faire_ about life itself."
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Turn 37. Knight asks: "That which is attained by observation and experiment (calling forth phenomena) leads, by analogy and induction, to a knowledge of 'empirical laws'; their gradual simplification and generalization?"
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Turn 38. Knight asks: "What assumption are we testing if Julian Huxley keeps the focus here?"
\nThe challenge gives the next answer real work to do.
Turn 39. Bishop answers: "He had probably never dipped very deep in the latter subject, and that strengthened our doubts."
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Turn 40. Bishop answers: "It is beginning to reach down from observation to experimental analysis, and from experimental analysis to grasp of principle."
\nThe score moves to 0-1.
Turn 41. Advance. "How was unity to be preserved in his comprehension of the forces of nature".
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Turn 42. Pass. King Henry David Thoreau re-centers the question.
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Turn 43. Knight asks: "The 'existing' can not be absolutely separated in our contemplation of nature from the 'future'?"
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Turn 44. Advance. Checked King Henry David Thoreau develops the line.
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Turn 45. Pass. "Thus the endeavour toward a unified view of the nature of forces leads to the hypothesis of an ether."
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Turn 46. Challenge. Checked King Henry David Thoreau tests the opposing line.
\nThe challenge gives the next answer real work to do.
Turn 47. Claim. "It appeared beyond question that light must be interpreted as a vibratory process in an elastic, inert medium filling up universal space."
\nThe score moves to 1-1.
Turn 48. Bishop answers: "In pre-human evolution, the blind chances of variation and the blind sifting of natural selection have directed the course of evolution and of progress."
\nThe score moves to 1-2.
Discourse B (0.849); aesthetic B (0.887); repetition 0.207. Move mix: 12 pass, 22 advance, 10 challenge, 3 claim, 1 save.
| Turn | Score | Action | Call | Relevance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0-0 | Pass | Queen David Bohm re-centers the question. | 0.918 |
| 2 | 0-0 | Pass | Knight John Maynard Smith re-centers the question. | 0.763 |
| 3 | 0-0 | Advance | Checked Queen David Bohm develops the line. | 0.890 |
| 4 | 0-0 | Advance | Checked Knight John Maynard Smith develops the line. | 0.614 |
| 5 | 0-0 | Pass | David Bohm releases to King Albert Einstein, who re-centers the question. | 0.910 |
| 6 | 0-0 | Challenge | Checked Knight John Maynard Smith tests the opposing line. | 0.811 |
| 7 | 0-0 | Advance | Bishop Hermann von Helmholtz develops the line. | 0.854 |
| 8 | 0-0 | Pass | John Maynard Smith releases to Bishop Julian Huxley, who re-centers the question. | 0.915 |
| 9 | 0-0 | Advance | Hermann von Helmholtz releases to Knight Alexander von Humboldt, who develops the line. | 0.873 |
| 10 | 0-0 | Advance | Checked Bishop Julian Huxley develops the line. | 0.798 |
| 11 | 0-0 | Challenge | Bishop Hermann von Helmholtz tests the opposing line. | 0.985 |
| 12 | 0-0 | Challenge | Checked Bishop Julian Huxley tests the opposing line. | 1.000 |
| 13 | 0-0 | Advance | Queen David Bohm develops the line. | 1.000 |
| 14 | 0-0 | Pass | Julian Huxley releases to King Henry David Thoreau, who re-centers the question. | 0.950 |
| 15 | 0-0 | Challenge | Checked Queen David Bohm tests the opposing line. | 0.840 |
| 16 | 0-0 | Advance | Henry David Thoreau releases to Queen Buddha, who develops the line. | 0.980 |
| 17 | 0-0 | Pass | David Bohm releases to Bishop Hermann von Helmholtz, who re-centers the question. | 0.998 |
| 18 | 0-0 | Advance | Checked Queen Buddha develops the line. | 1.000 |
| 19 | 0-0 | Challenge | Checked Bishop Hermann von Helmholtz tests the opposing line. | 0.984 |
| 20 | 0-0 | Pass | Buddha releases to Knight John Maynard Smith, who re-centers the question. | 1.000 |
| 21 | 0-0 | Advance | Checked Bishop Hermann von Helmholtz develops the line. | 0.925 |
| 22 | 0-0 | Advance | John Maynard Smith releases to Bishop Stephen Jay Gould, who develops the line. | 0.893 |
| 23 | 0-0 | Pass | Hermann von Helmholtz releases to Knight Wolfgang Pauli, who re-centers the question. | 0.909 |
| 24 | 0-0 | Advance | Checked Bishop Stephen Jay Gould develops the line. | 0.829 |
| 25 | 0-0 | Advance | Queen David Bohm develops the line. | 0.870 |
| 26 | 0-0 | Advance | Stephen Jay Gould releases to Knight Jacques Monod, who develops the line. | 0.841 |
| 27 | 0-0 | Challenge | Checked Queen David Bohm tests the opposing line. | 0.931 |
| 28 | 0-0 | Challenge | Checked Knight Jacques Monod tests the opposing line. | 1.000 |
| 29 | 0-0 | Save | Checked Queen David Bohm is denied closure. | 0.920 |
| 30 | 0-0 | Pass | Jacques Monod releases to King Henry David Thoreau, who re-centers the question. | 0.988 |
| 31 | 0-0 | Advance | Checked Queen David Bohm develops the line. | 0.786 |
| 32 | 0-0 | Advance | Henry David Thoreau releases to Queen Buddha, who develops the line. | 0.703 |
| 33 | 0-0 | Advance | David Bohm releases to Knight Wolfgang Pauli, who develops the line. | 0.972 |
| 34 | 0-0 | Advance | Buddha releases to Bishop Stephen Jay Gould, who develops the line. | 1.000 |
| 35 | 0-0 | Challenge | Checked Knight Wolfgang Pauli tests the opposing line. | 0.977 |
| 36 | 0-0 | Advance | Bishop Julian Huxley develops the line. | 1.000 |
| 37 | 0-0 | Pass | Wolfgang Pauli releases to Knight Alexander von Humboldt, who re-centers the question. | 1.000 |
| 38 | 0-0 | Challenge | Julian Huxley releases to Knight Jacques Monod, who tests the opposing line. | 0.841 |
| 39 | 0-0 | Advance | Alexander von Humboldt releases to Bishop Hermann von Helmholtz, who develops the line. | 0.863 |
| 40 | 0-1 | Claim | Bishop Julian Huxley presses a claim. | 0.856 |
| 41 | 0-1 | Advance | King Albert Einstein develops the line. | 0.821 |
| 42 | 0-1 | Pass | King Henry David Thoreau re-centers the question. | 0.889 |
| 43 | 0-1 | Advance | Albert Einstein releases to Knight Alexander von Humboldt, who develops the line. | 1.000 |
| 44 | 0-1 | Advance | Checked King Henry David Thoreau develops the line. | 0.876 |
| 45 | 0-1 | Pass | King Albert Einstein re-centers the question. | 0.816 |
| 46 | 0-1 | Challenge | Checked King Henry David Thoreau tests the opposing line. | 0.921 |
| 47 | 1-1 | Claim | Checked King Albert Einstein presses a claim. | 0.949 |
| 48 | 1-2 | Claim | Henry David Thoreau releases to Bishop Julian Huxley, who presses a claim. | 0.986 |