MATH (Lewis Carroll) vs ELA (Henry David Thoreau)

Turn 1. Knight asks: "If this line is valid, what would it imply for the other side to justify now?"

The inquiry keeps moving.

Turn 2. Pass. Queen Buddha re-centers the question.

The inquiry keeps moving.

Turn 3. Knight asks: "If this line is valid, what would it imply for the other side to justify now?"

The challenge gives the next answer real work to do.

Turn 4. Advance. King Henry David Thoreau develops the line.

The inquiry keeps moving.

Turn 5. Bishop answers: "The Solution of a problem is the method of construction which accomplishes the required end."

The move answers pressure.

Turn 6. Advance. Queen Buddha develops the line.

The inquiry keeps moving.

Turn 7. Bishop answers: "In compiling his work the Editor has received invaluable assistance from the late Rev."

The move answers pressure.

Turn 8. Knight asks: "What assumption are we testing if Buddha keeps the focus here?"

The move answers pressure.

Turn 9. Pass. "And, in the present work, the difficulties of the "5 Liars" Problem, at p."

The move answers pressure.

Turn 10. Bishop answers: "I can defend it on this basis, and that is why this answer matters."

The inquiry keeps moving.

Turn 11. Advance. "For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it."

The move answers pressure.

Turn 12. Knight asks: "What assumption are we testing if Stephen Jay Gould keeps the focus here?"

The move answers pressure.

Turn 13. Pass. "I esteemed eloquence highly, and was in raptures with poesy; but I thought that both were gifts of nature rather than fruits of study."

The inquiry keeps moving.

Turn 14. Bishop answers: "I can defend it on this basis, and that is why this answer matters."

The challenge gives the next answer real work to do.

Turn 15. Claim. "For to hold converse with those of other ages and to travel, are almost the same thing."

The score moves to 1-0.

Turn 16. Claim. Stephen Jay Gould releases to Queen Buddha, who presses a claim.

The score moves to 1-1.

Turn 17. Bishop answers: "Et quand on envisage la question de ce biais, les difficultés disparaissent du même coup."

The inquiry keeps moving.

Turn 18. Knight asks: "What assumption are we testing if knight keeps the focus here?"

The inquiry keeps moving.

Turn 19. Advance. "I was thus led to infer that the ground of our opinions is far more custom and example than any certain knowledge."

The move answers pressure.

Turn 20. Bishop answers: "Jacques Monod framed this well; the inference is that we should move here."

The challenge gives the next answer real work to do.

Turn 21. Challenge. "For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it."

The challenge gives the next answer real work to do.

Turn 22. Knight asks: "What assumption are we testing if Stephen Jay Gould keeps the focus here?"

The move answers pressure.

Turn 23. Advance. "I esteemed eloquence highly, and was in raptures with poesy; but I thought that both were gifts of nature rather than fruits of study."

The move answers pressure.

Turn 24. Knight asks: "What assumption are we testing if Jacques Monod keeps the focus here?"

The challenge gives the next answer real work to do.

Turn 25. Bishop answers: "An acute angle is one which is less than a right angle, as A . x v i ."

The move answers pressure.

Turn 26. Knight asks: "What assumption are we testing if knight keeps the focus here?"

The move answers pressure.

Turn 27. Bishop answers: "La multiplicité sans borne, c'est aussi ce que suppose la nature même de la monade."

The move answers pressure.

Turn 28. Bishop answers: "So the core point is this: the line from E5->E4 is the better constraint."

The move answers pressure.

Turn 29. Bishop answers: "En les introduisant à la place du continu, l'on ne change rien qu'aux yeux de l'imagination."

The challenge gives the next answer real work to do.

Turn 30. Save. Stephen Jay Gould releases to Queen Buddha, who is denied closure.

Closure is delayed at 1-1.

Turn 31. Knight asks: "If this line is valid, what would it imply for the other side to justify now?"

The move answers pressure.

Turn 32. Advance. Checked Queen Buddha develops the line.

The move answers pressure.

Turn 33. Bishop answers: "A circle may be described from any centre, and with any distance from that centre as radius."

The move answers pressure.

Turn 34. Bishop answers: "Let’s take that test seriously; here is how it holds together."

The move answers pressure.

Turn 35. Advance. "Soriteses", will, I fear, be condemned as "bad English", unless I say a word in its defence."

The move answers pressure.

Turn 36. Bishop answers: "I can defend it on this basis, and that is why this answer matters."

The challenge gives the next answer real work to do.

Turn 37. Knight asks: "If this line is valid, what would it imply for the other side to justify now?"

The inquiry keeps moving.

Turn 38. Advance. Stephen Jay Gould releases to King Henry David Thoreau, who develops the line.

The move answers pressure.

Turn 39. Bishop answers: "Et l'on n'observe pas que c'est «une fiction, que la nature ne souffre point»."

The challenge gives the next answer real work to do.

Turn 40. Challenge. Checked King Henry David Thoreau tests the opposing line.

The challenge gives the next answer real work to do.

Turn 41. Bishop answers: "Et quand on envisage la question de ce biais, les difficultés disparaissent du même coup."

The score moves to 2-1.

Turn 42. Knight asks: "What assumption are we testing if Henry David Thoreau keeps the focus here?"

The score moves to 2-2.

Turn 43. Pass. "And then, you know, one is so _patient_ with one's self: one _never_ gets irritated at one's own stupidity!"

The inquiry keeps moving.

Turn 44. Knight asks: "What assumption are we testing if knight keeps the focus here?"

The challenge gives the next answer real work to do.

Turn 45. Knight asks: "If this line is valid, what would it imply for the other side to justify now?"

The move answers pressure.

Turn 46. Knight asks: "What assumption are we testing if Jacques Monod keeps the focus here?"

Closure is delayed at 2-2.

Turn 47. Advance. "And, all the while, you have been leaving unexplored a perfect _mine_ of wealth."

The move answers pressure.

Turn 48. Knight asks: "What assumption are we testing if knight keeps the focus here?"

The challenge gives the next answer real work to do.

Shootout round 1. Blaise Pascal for MATH (Lewis Carroll): goal. Shootout score 1-0.

Shootout round 1. John Maynard Smith for ELA (Henry David Thoreau): goal. Shootout score 1-1.

Shootout round 2. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz for MATH (Lewis Carroll): "La multiplicité sans borne, c'est aussi ce que suppose la nature même de la monade.". Shootout score 1-1.

Shootout round 2. Jacques Monod for ELA (Henry David Thoreau): save. Shootout score 1-1.

Shootout round 3. René Descartes for MATH (Lewis Carroll): "For to hold converse with those of other ages and to travel, are almost the same thing.". Shootout score 2-1.

Shootout round 3. Buddha for ELA (Henry David Thoreau): goal. Shootout score 2-2.

Shootout round 4. Claude Shannon for MATH (Lewis Carroll): save. Shootout score 2-2.

Shootout round 4. Stephen Jay Gould for ELA (Henry David Thoreau): save. Shootout score 2-2.

Shootout round 5. Lewis Carroll for MATH (Lewis Carroll): "And, in the present work, the difficulties of the "5 Liars" Problem, at p.". Shootout score 2-2.

Shootout round 5. Henry David Thoreau for ELA (Henry David Thoreau): save. Shootout score 2-2.

Shootout round 6. Euclid for MATH (Lewis Carroll): "The Solution of a problem is the method of construction which accomplishes the required end.". Shootout score 3-2.

Shootout round 6. Julian Huxley for ELA (Henry David Thoreau): "It is beginning to reach down from observation to experimental analysis, and from experimental analysis to grasp of principle.". Shootout score 3-3.

Shootout round 7. Blaise Pascal for MATH (Lewis Carroll): save. Shootout score 3-3.

Shootout round 7. John Maynard Smith for ELA (Henry David Thoreau): goal. Shootout score 3-4.