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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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He gave the example of a chicken which comes to expect a never-ending source of food as it is fattened up only to one day then be slaughtered in a work which refuted inductive reasoning as a source of absolute certainty. In another of his works, he regards one of the titular activities as a Catholic practice designed to prevent incest, leading to his expulsion from a teaching post. In addition to The Problem of Philosophy and Marriage and Morals, he wrote The Scientific Outlook and delivered the Mans Peril broadcast on BBC. Jean-Paul Sartre attended his tribunal, where he exposed American atrocities in Vietnam, years after his winning the Nobel prize in 1950 for literature. His most famous work developed the theory of types in mathematical logic. For ten points, name this philosopher who wrote Principia Mathematica along with Alfred North Whitehead.
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Social Science


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Thomas McClintock helped chair this meeting, which sparked a National Convention two years later in Worcester, Massachusetts and saw speeches by Samuel Tillman and Ansel Bascom. Newspaper editor Gordon Bennet ridiculed this meeting by publishing its proceedings in the New York Herald, and it was sparked by an extension of the state property tax. This meeting was organized at Richard Hunt's tea table in the nearby village of Waterloo and took place in a Wesleyan church. The Declaration of Independence was modified to form its namesake Declaration of Sentiments. For ten points, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Stanton organized which 1848 convention on women's rights
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History


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Adherents of this religion traditionally built towers known as Dokhmas where birds and weather would remove the flesh of their dead because fire and earth were sacred. Its scripture is composed of parts like the visperad, the vindedad, and the gathas, hymns thought to have been composed by its Persian founder. For 10 points, name this religion in which Angra-Mainyu constantly struggles with Ahura Mazda.
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Social Science