In this task you will be given a text passage from a trivia quiz. You should choose the category this question belongs to from these categories: History, Science, Social Science, Fine Arts, Literature. You can only choose one category, so if in doubt, please choose the closest match.
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Question: In one work, this thinker consults with a monk to better understand the concept of proximate power. This thinker divided hypotheses into three categories depending on what absurdities would be implied by accepting the hypothesis as true or false. This man participated in the Formulary Controversy with a series of letters in which he attacked Antonio Escobar's use of casuistry and lambasted the moral lapses of the Jesuits. After a carriage accident and a subsequent religious vision, he published his Memorial, which led to him taking up the cause of the Jansenists. He is the namesake of an idea that suggests that the belief in God represents the possibility of infinite gain while only imposing a finite loss. For 10 points, name this author of the Provincial Letters and Pensees, a French philosopher who is the namesake of a "wager" and a mathematical triangle.

Answer: Social Science


Question: James Wood argued in his essay about this man's "Complacent God" that his writing was more style than content. He has written about a New Jersey teenager who attempted to bomb the Lincoln Tunnel, and published a poetry collection called "Endpoint" and essays called "Due Considerations. " In one story, he writes that Stokesie has "two babies chalked up on his fuselage already," and the main character lusts after Queenie, an unknown girl in a bathing suit. Most of his novels are set in fictional Olinger, Pennsylvania and Eastwick, Rhode Island, and they including the Bech books, Buchanan stories, and "The Scarlet Letter" trilogy, while he is best known for a trilogy involving one character, whose first book ends with the pregnancy of his mistress after his legitimate daughter is accidentally drowned. For 10 points, name this American author of Terrorist and "A&P" best known for his character Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom.

Answer: Social Science


Question: This thinker used an elliptic pattern to map a sphere as a square to create his "quincuncial map." This philosopher wrote a work that examines whether a diamond in a cushion of cotton can be called hard. He outlined the index, the icon, and the symbol as three classifications to his theory of the triadic relationship between the interpretant, the sign, and the object. He juxtaposed the "Gospel of Greed" and the "Gospel of Belief" in his article "Evolutionary Love" and wrote a work that dismisses the "method of authority" and the "method of tenacity" in favor of the scientific method in an article in Popular Science Monthly. For 10 points name this author of "The Fixation of Belief" and "How to Make Our Ideas Clear", one of the founders of Pragmatism.

Answer:
Social Science