New Essays On Human Understanding - 2023 BHSU

Question

The introduction to this text uses the example of hearing the sound of crashing waves all together, rather than separately, to explain its author’s concept of “small perceptions.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this work, which claims that “nothing is in the intellect which was not first in the senses, except the intellect itself.” This work argues that the mind is not a “blank tablet,” but a veined block of marble.

ANSWER: New Essays On Human Understanding [or New Essays Concerning Human Understanding; or Nouveaux Essais Sur l’Entendement Humaine]

[10e] The New Essays Concerning Human Understanding lay out the epistemology of this German polymath, whose optimistic philosophy, as evidenced in his Theodicy, was satirized by Voltaire.

ANSWER: Gottfried (Wilhelm) Leibniz

[10m] Leibniz’s theory of human souls was critically discussed in the “Rorarius” entry of this encyclopedic work by the skeptical philosopher Pierre Bayle.

ANSWER: Historical and Critical Dictionary [or Dictionnaire Historique et Critique]

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Summary


2023 BHSU @ Berkeley	03/18/2023	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Maryland	03/11/2023	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Northwestern	02/25/2023	Y	6	21.67	100%	67%	50%
2023 BHSU Online	04/15/2023	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Sheffield	04/15/2023	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Waterloo	04/15/2023	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Yale	04/08/2023	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2023 BHSU @ Yale	04/08/2023	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%

Data


Stanford A	Berkeley B	0	10	0	10
[Insert Lawyer Joke Here]	It's Joever	0	10	10	20
Rutgers Diaspora	Glass Onyen: A Knives Out Mystery	0	10	0	10
Maryland A	Maryland B+	0	10	0	10
Fan-tastic Negs and Where to Find Them	The Perfection of Wisdom in 8,000 Negs	0	10	0	10
Brownstein et al.	Northwestern	10	10	10	30
Chicago A	Illinois	10	10	10	30
Purdue	Epic	0	10	0	10
Amartya Senpai Notice Me	Michigan	0	10	10	20
Chicago B+	OSU	0	10	10	20
WUSTL	Mojo Shojo	10	10	0	20
Dr. Christopher Manners, MD - Samarra, Iraq	Cornell B-	0	10	10	20
Cornell C++	Rollin in from Sturgis, The Cheyne Gang	0	10	10	20
Houston and friends	The Enrique Trastamara Military Academy B	0	10	0	10
Hutto Hippos	What is BH! And you are asking me? BHSU	0	10	0	10
Broken Imperial Nomads	Oxford Hornets	0	10	0	10
Buzzers Karamazov	Magisters Ludi	0	10	0	10
Neg 5! Playing Quizbowl, Liddy Style	The Passion According to C.H.	0	10	0	10
meet the new weird, same as the old weird	nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft	10	10	10	30
UG Championship Players (and Mazin)	meet the new weird, same as the old weird	0	10	10	20
UG Championship Players (and Mazin)	meet the new weird, same as the old weird	0	10	10	20
UG Championship Players (and Mazin)	Olmo (Bonus) Bagelry	0	10	10	20
UG Championship Players (and Mazin)	Olmo (Bonus) Bagelry	0	10	10	20
Columbia B	Watching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People Again	0	10	0	10
Olmo (Bonus) Bagelry	Columbia B	0	10	0	10
UG Championship Players (and Mazin)	meet the new weird, same as the old weird	0	10	10	20
UG Championship Players (and Mazin)	meet the new weird, same as the old weird	0	10	10	20
UG Championship Players (and Mazin)	Olmo (Bonus) Bagelry	0	10	10	20
UG Championship Players (and Mazin)	Olmo (Bonus) Bagelry	0	10	10	20
Watching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People Again	nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft	0	10	0	10