George Berkeley - 2024 ACF Winter

Question

In response to one of this philosopher’s ideas, Samuel Johnson kicked a stone and proclaimed, “I refute it thus.” For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this tar-water-peddling philosopher who argued that primary qualities were relative and therefore mind-dependent. This thinker wrote that “to be is to be perceived.”

ANSWER: George Berkeley

[10e] Berkeley’s later works arguing against primary qualities built on his “new theory of [this faculty],” which rejected the views of earlier optics theories and held that spatial depth was invisible to this sense.

ANSWER: vision [accept eyesight; accept An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision]

[10h] In his Principles and Dialogues, Berkeley put forth this argument whose name was coined by Andre Gallois. This argument asks the reader to imagine trees in a park or books in a closet to deny mind-independent objects.

ANSWER: master argument

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Summary


2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley	2024-11-16	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh	2024-11-16	Y	6	21.67	100%	67%	50%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	Y	9	18.89	100%	78%	11%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	Y	7	15.71	100%	43%	14%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	8	13.75	75%	50%	13%
2024 ACF Winter at UBC	2024-11-16	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida	2024-11-16	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	Y	11	17.27	82%	73%	18%

Data


Berkeley C	Berkeley A	10	10	0	20
Stanford A	Berkeley B	10	10	0	20
Stanford L	Stanford M	10	10	0	20
Bard A	Columbia B	10	10	0	20
Rowan A	Haverford A	0	10	0	10
Johns Hopkins A	Columbia A	10	10	10	30
Penn B	Penn State B	10	10	10	30
Penn State A	Penn A	10	10	10	30
Lehigh A	Rutgers C	0	10	0	10
Notre Dame	WashU D	10	10	0	20
UIUC B	Purdue A	10	10	10	30
Indiana B	Purdue D	10	10	0	20
UChicago B	SIUE A	10	10	0	20
UIUC D	UChicago D	0	10	0	10
UIUC A	Indiana A	10	10	0	20
UIUC C	UChicago A	10	10	0	20
UChicago C	WashU B	0	10	0	10
Northwestern A	WashU C	10	10	0	20
CWRU B (UG)	CWRU D (DII)	0	10	0	10
Kenyon B (DII)	Michigan C (UG)	0	10	0	10
Kenyon A (UG)	Michigan State B (UG)	10	10	0	20
CWRU A (UG)	Michigan State C (UG)	10	10	10	30
Pitt B (UG)	Ohio State B (DII)	0	10	0	10
Ohio State C (DII)	Michigan B	0	10	0	10
Pitt A	Michigan D	10	10	0	20
McGill E	Arkansas	10	10	0	20
NYU A	Central Oklahoma	10	0	0	10
Vassar B	Mississippi State	0	10	0	10
Missouri	Texas B	10	10	0	20
WUSTL A	Ole Miss	0	10	0	10
Texas A	NYU B	10	10	10	30
Texas C	Texas D	0	10	0	10
Oregon State	Vassar A	0	0	0	0
UBC A	UW B	10	10	0	20
UBC B	Alberta	0	10	0	10
UW A	SFU	0	10	0	10
Florida State University A	UCF B	0	10	0	10
UF B	UF A	10	10	0	20
UF C	UCF A	0	10	0	10
UF D	Florida Tech B	10	10	0	20
UF E	Florida Tech A	0	10	0	10
Birmingham	Oxford B	10	10	0	20
Imperial A	Bristol B	10	10	0	20
Cambridge B	Southampton B	10	10	0	20
Durham B	Cambridge D	10	10	0	20
Durham A	Edinburgh	10	10	0	20
Imperial B	Warwick B	0	10	0	10
Cambridge C	LSE B	0	10	0	10
LSE A	Southampton A	10	0	0	10
Southampton B	Southampton A	10	0	10	20
Oxford A	Team 1	10	10	10	30
Bristol A	Warwick A	0	10	0	10