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: poem by this author describes a wall inscribed with the phrase "PARAS THIRTEEN, BOGSIDE NIL" and is an elegy for a man who "drank like a fish" before he was "blown to bits. " He included the image of a "four foot box, a foot for every year" in a poem narrated by a student who "sat all morning in the college sick bay counting bells knelling classes to a close. " This author of "Casualty" wrote of a student of Miss Walls who collects "jampotfulls" of (*) "frogspawn" in another poem. He wrote that "my squat pen rests" "between my finger and my thumb" in a poem that compares his profession to his father's labor in the bogs. For 10 points, name this poet who included "Mid-Term Break" and "Digging" in his collection The Death of a Naturalist, an Irish Nobel winner who translated Beowulf.

Answer: Literature

Question: One chapter of this work relates the story of a young man who hangs himself in shame after being discovered eating mutton. The narrator is visited by Yram in prison, and spends six months with the Nosnibors, who hope he falls in love with Zulora, although he flies back to England with Arowhena. Earlier, that narrator witnesses a trial where a man is sentenced to receive two tablespoons of castor oil daily for being guilty of pulmonary consumption. After talking with Chowbok, the protagonist encounters a society that worships Ydgrun, is supported by the Colleges of Unreason, and believes that adults are under siege from the World of the Unborn. Partly based on the essay Darwin Among the Machines, it begins with the narrator discovering the title location in New Zealand. FTP, name this utopian novel by Samuel Butler.

Answer:
Literature