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.

This writer distinguished between learning through description and learning through acquaintance in a work that introduces the Cartesian method of doubt with the example of a table. This man attempted to solve the problem of negative existentials in a work that claimed that "Aristotle" was not a name but a description. That work by this man also criticized Meinong and rejects the distinction between propositions and truth values proposed in (*) Frege's On Sense and Reference. This author of The Problems of Philosophy and "On Denoting" introduced his namesake paradox in naive set theory in a work that attempted to explain mathematics with axiomatic logic. For 10 points, name this British philosopher who co-wrote Principia Mathematica with Alfred North Whitehead.
Social Science

The last thing he wrote before his suicide was a story entitled "Gleanings From" his most famous work, the longest of his "palm-of-the-hand" stories. David Henry Hwang wrote this man into a theatrical adaptation of this author's House of the Sleeping Beauties, written after his novel about the twin daughters of kimono salesmen, The Old Capital. Other novels by him deal with the six-month contest between Ottake and Shusai, and with the love of Shimmamura for a northern geisha. For 10 points, name this Japanese author of The Master of Go and Snow Country.
Literature

His critiqued Flaubert's Madame Bovary in his The Perpetual Orgy. His examination of Latin American authoritarianism follows Urania Cabral and Rafael Trujillo in his The Feast of the Goat. In one story a series of vignettes tell the story of the Indian girl Bonifacia and the proprietor Don Anselmo, while in another The Slave squeals on The Circle for stealing answers to a chemistry test at the (*) Leoncia Prado Academy. In addition to the Green House and The Time of the Hero, in his most famous story, the narrator Mario meets the genius soap author Pedro Camacho before falling in love with his titular relative. For 10 points, name this Peruvian author of Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter.

Literature