Nyāya - 2024 ACF Regionals

Question

In the medieval era, this school combined with the similar Vaisheshika (“vye-SHESH-kuh”) school and developed precise technical language used by linguists, legal theorists, and even poets. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this school of philosophy, which prioritized perception or Pratyakṣa but still believed in testimony. According to this school, liberation can only come from true knowledge of the sixteen categories.

ANSWER: Nyāya

[10e] The Nyāya school, which shares similar beliefs regarding suffering with Buddhism, is said to have been founded by a sage with this name, which was also the family name of Siddartha, the Buddha.

ANSWER: Gautama [or Gotama]

[10m] As an astika school, the Nyāya school affirmed these texts, while nāstika schools did not. Advaita was a group with a school of Hindu philosophy named for the “end” of these texts.

ANSWER: Vedas

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Summary


2024 ACF Regionals @ Berkeley	01/27/2024	Y	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell	01/27/2024	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU	01/27/2024	Y	9	16.67	89%	78%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Minnesota	01/27/2024	Y	2	25.00	100%	100%	50%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State	01/27/2024	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers	01/27/2024	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial	01/27/2024	Y	8	16.25	88%	75%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt	01/27/2024	Y	5	18.00	80%	100%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ MIT	01/27/2024	Y	3	13.33	67%	67%	0%

Data


Berkeley B	Berkeley A	0	10	10	20
Berkeley C	Stanford B	0	10	10	20
Stanford A	Stanford C	10	10	10	30
Cornell A	Binghamton	10	10	10	30
Cornell B	Cornell C	0	10	10	20
RIT B	RIT A	0	10	0	10
Duke A (UG)	Virginia B (UG)	0	10	10	20
UNC D (DII)	GWU A (UG)	0	0	10	10
William & Mary A (UG)	GWU B (Grad)	0	10	10	20
Virginia C (UG)	JMU A (UG)	0	10	0	10
Liberty A (Grad)	Maryland C (DII)	0	10	10	20
Virginia A (UG)	Liberty B (DII)	0	10	10	20
Maryland A (Grad)	Liberty C (DII)	0	10	10	20
Maryland B (UG)	Roanoke College A (DII)	0	10	0	10
UNC B (UG)	JMU B (UG)	0	10	10	20
Minnesota B	Iowa State	10	10	10	30
Arizona State	Minnesota C	0	10	10	20
Kenyon	Cedarville	0	10	10	20
Michigan A	Michigan C	10	10	10	30
Ohio State B	Ohio State A	0	10	0	10
Columbia A	NYU B	0	10	10	20
Haverford	Columbia C	0	10	0	10
John Jay	NYU A	0	10	0	10
Penn	Columbia B	0	10	0	10
Vassar	Rowan	0	10	10	20
Imperial A	Bristol	0	10	10	20
Cambridge A	Oxford C	0	10	10	20
Cambridge C	Edinburgh	0	10	0	10
Oxford B	Imperial B	0	10	10	20
Oxford A	KCL	0	0	10	10
Kiel	Cambridge B	0	10	10	20
Durham A	Sheffield	0	10	10	20
Durham B	Warwick	0	10	0	10
Alabama	MTSU	0	0	10	10
Geodesic	Georgia Tech B	0	10	10	20
Vanderbilt A	Harding	0	10	10	20
South Carolina	Tennessee	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech A	Vanderbilt B	0	10	10	20
Brandeis A	Boston University	0	10	10	20
Dartmouth A	Brandeis B	0	10	10	20
Harvard B	Yale A	0	0	0	0