Question
As an instance of the mind affecting the body, this philosopher cited the fear that a man might feel crossing a tree-trunk over a gorge. According to tradition, this philosopher illustrated the faculty of “prehension” by putting a wolf within sight of a caged sheep, which, though in no danger, died of stress. This philosopher argued that the contingent universe requires a “necessary existent” in a unique proof of the existence of God. This philosopher demonstrated the existence of the (*) soul with an “argument from abstraction,” which considers an adult man who pops into existence and receives no data from his senses. That thought experiment is this philosopher’s “Floating Man.” For 10 points, name this Islamic philosopher who authored the philosophical Book of Healing, as well as the Canon of Medicine. ■END■
Summary
2023 BHSU @ Northwestern | 02/25/2023 | Y | 6 | 83% | 33% | 33% | 85.00 |
2023 BHSU @ Maryland | 03/11/2023 | Y | 3 | 100% | 67% | 0% | 78.33 |
2023 BHSU @ Berkeley | 03/18/2023 | Y | 3 | 100% | 100% | 0% | 66.67 |
2023 BHSU @ Yale | 04/08/2023 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 95.00 |
2023 BHSU Online | 04/15/2023 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 98.50 |
2023 BHSU @ Sheffield | 04/15/2023 | Y | 2 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 71.50 |
2023 BHSU @ Waterloo | 04/15/2023 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 92.33 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Jordan Brownstein | Maryland B- | Chicago B | 44 | 15 |
Jason Golfinos | [Insert Lawyer Joke Here] | Berkeley B | 63 | 15 |
Jonathan Shauf | The Perfection of Wisdom in 8,000 Negs | Maryland B+ | 63 | 15 |
Omer | Oxford Hornets | Broken Imperial Nomads | 63 | 15 |
Eric Wolfsberg | It's Joever | Berkeley A | 67 | 15 |
Sky Li | The Passion According to C.H. | Cameron et al. | 67 | 15 |
Tim Morrison | Stanford A | Stanford B | 70 | 15 |
John Lawrence | Amartya Senpai Notice Me | Epic Games | 70 | 15 |
Jim Fan | Fan-tastic Negs and Where to Find Them | Glass Onyen: A Knives Out Mystery | 72 | 15 |
Krol | Magisters Ludi | Buzzers Karamazov | 80 | 10 |
Anson Berns | Watching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People Again | Olmo (Bonus) Bagelry | 83 | 10 |
Clark Smith | OSU | Mojo Shojo | 85 | 10 |
Iain Carpenter | Illinois A+ | Michigan | 85 | -5 |
Amogh Kulkarni | Cornell C++ | Hutto Hippos | 85 | 10 |
Joel Miles | The Enrique Trastamara Military Academy B | Cornell B- | 85 | 10 |
Geoffrey Chen | Hutto Hippos | Rollin in from Sturgis, The Cheyne Gang | 93 | 10 |
Daniel Sheinberg | UG Championship Players (and Mazin) | nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft | 94 | 10 |
Charles Hang | WUSTL | Chicago A | 96 | 10 |
JJ Tsai | Rutgers Diaspora | Maryland A | 100 | 10 |
Young Fenimore Leave | What is BH! And you are asking me? BHSU | Rollin in from Sturgis, The Cheyne Gang | 101 | -5 |
Henry Atkins | Neg 5! Playing Quizbowl, Liddy Style | The Vulture's Guide to Buzz | 101 | 10 |
Quynh Phung | Purdue | Northwestern | 104 | -5 |
Kevin Wang | meet the new weird, same as the old weird | Columbia B | 108 | 10 |
David Snoddon | Parth et al. | Milan et al. | 109 | 10 |
Chris Sims | Northwestern | Purdue | 130 | 10 |
Subhamitra Banerjee Roychoudhury | Michigan | Illinois A+ | 131 | 0 |
Zach Foster | Rollin in from Sturgis, The Cheyne Gang | What is BH! And you are asking me? BHSU | 131 | 10 |