Question
This thinker suggested updating Kant with an “energetic imperative” reading “do not squander energy!” and wrote “Sunday sermons” for Ernst Haeckel’s Monist League. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this chemist who created a color system based on “hue triangles,” coined the term “mole,” and names the standard process for producing nitric acid.
ANSWER: Wilhelm Ostwald [or Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald; accept Ostwald process]
[10h] Ostwald’s energism and anti-atomism allied him with this school of thought, whose Russian followers were attacked in Lenin’s book Materialism and Empirio-criticism. The namesake of this school of thought inspired Douglas Harding’s Headless Way with his “view from the left eye” self-portrait.
ANSWER: Machism [or Machian positivism; or answers indicating the views of Ernst Mach; accept Russian Machists; prompt on positivism, empiricism, or sensationalism by asking “as theorized by whom?”]
[10m] Ostwald devised Weltdeutsch after championing this foremost reformed version of Esperanto, which was created by Louis Couturat and Otto Jespersen. This language’s three-letter name is a suffix meaning “offspring.”
ANSWER: Ido
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Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 12 | 13.33 | 83% | 25% | 25% |