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.

Q: 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.

A: Social Science
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Q: This results from phonon interactions in simple metals. Joule heating is caused by this, while Wheatstone bridges are used to find unknown values for this quantity. The thermal form of this quantity is equal to the length of the material over the conductivity times the cross-sectional area. "Drug" this occurs when pathogens become able to survive exposure to certain drugs, rendering those drugs obsolete. Drag is sometimes called this of air. Name this term, the electrical type of which measures of the degree an object opposes the flow of an electrical current, measured in ohms.

A: Science
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Q: An ion of this element is used as a masking agent when performing an EDTA titration of a mixture of magnesium and aluminum. A common inhibitor of serine proteases contains a phosphate group attached to two isopropyl groups and an atom of this element. One compound that contains 3 atoms of this element is used to cleave t-BOC during solid-phase peptide synthesis. When this atom is added to the alpha carbon of acetic acid, it significantly strengthens it via the (*) inductive effect. A powerful Lewis acid is a compound of three atoms of this element attached to boron. Four atoms of this element are attached to the repeating element of Teflon, and an acid of this element is used to etch glass. An ion of the element is commonly added to drinking water. For 10 points, name this most electronegative element with atomic number 9 and symbol F.

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Science
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