being a necessary existent - 2024 ARCADIA

Question

Description acceptable. Avveroes critiqued an argument for God’s existence using this quality as failing the Aristotelian demand for a theological proof to be based in the natural world. For 10 points each:

[10h] Avicenna’s proof of the truthful moves by showing that something with this quality exists, and then that something with this quality would have all the properties of God.

ANSWER: being a necessary existent [or wājib al-wujūd; accept answers like depending on nothing else to exist, or depending only on itself to exist, or being something that must exist, or necessarily existing, accept equivalents]

[10m] Avicenna’s proof of the truthful is this kind of argument for God’s existence, which infers the existence of God from facts about the universe. These types of arguments often deal with causes.

ANSWER: cosmological argument

[10e] This Ash’arite thinker harshly critiqued several of Avicenna’s conclusions about God in The Incoherence of the Philosophers, which would in turn be attacked by Avveroes.

ANSWER: Al-Ghazali [or Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghazālī; accept Algazel or Algazelus]

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2024 ARCADIA at BU	2024-12-06	Y	8	7.50	63%	13%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Duke	2024-12-06	Y	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T	2024-12-06	Y	2	5.00	50%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA Online	2025-05-17	Y	5	16.00	100%	0%	60%
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State	2024-12-06	Y	2	5.00	50%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech	2024-12-06	Y	4	5.00	25%	25%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	2024-12-06	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo	2024-11-09	Y	5	10.00	60%	0%	40%
2024 ARCADIA at GT	2024-12-06	Y	5	4.00	20%	20%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois	2024-11-09	Y	4	15.00	100%	25%	25%
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick	2024-12-06	Y	5	8.00	60%	20%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont	2024-11-02	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%

Data


Brandeis A	BU	0	0	10	10
Boston College B	Bowdoin B	0	10	10	20
Brandeis B	Bowdoin A	0	0	0	0
Clark House	Amherst	0	0	0	0
McGill A	Carleton A	0	0	0	0
Toronto Metropolitan A	McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii	0	0	0	0
Toronto A	Toronto B	10	0	10	20
Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha	Waterloo Cloze	0	0	10	10
Waterloo Aspidistra	Waterloo Basic	10	0	10	20
Penn State	Maryland	0	0	10	10
RIT	Pitt	0	0	0	0
Florida Tech	UCF B	0	0	0	0
UCF A	UF A	0	10	0	10
UF B	UF C	0	0	10	10
Valencia	USF	0	0	0	0
Berkeley B	Berkeley A	0	10	10	20
Stanford	Berkeley Past	0	0	10	10
Cambridge B	Imperial B	0	10	0	10
LSE A	Warwick C	0	0	10	10
Southampton	Cambridge A	0	0	10	10
Imperial A	Warwick A	0	0	0	0
LSE B	Warwick B	0	0	10	10
Claremont	Anderson et al.	0	10	10	20
SGV Ventures	Jason et al.	0	0	10	10
U[C]SD	ALCU	10	10	10	30
Harvard	Tufts A	0	0	10	10
MIT	Clark Wilson	0	0	10	10
Boston College A	Tufts B	0	0	0	0
Yale	Bowdoin C	0	0	10	10
North Carolina A	Virginia Tech B	0	0	0	0
Virginia Tech C	North Carolina B	0	0	10	10
Virginia Tech A	South Carolina	0	10	10	20
Missouri	Squidward Community College	0	0	0	0
WashU	Truman	0	0	10	10
Social credit go vroom	ASU->Stanford->ASU pipeline	10	0	10	20
bingy academy	In the Mood for Buzz	0	0	10	10
Madmen and Specialists	she limp on my waltz till i feel pathetique	10	0	10	20
Paddington in Peru (2024)	The cult of SGA	10	0	10	20
Toyota Tundra Turbos — Twisting Truths - Tackling Trivia - Taming Titans	Old and Young	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech A	Mississippi State	0	0	0	0
Johns Creek	Georgia Tech D	0	0	0	0
Innovation Academy A	Georgia Tech C	0	10	10	20
Innovation Academy C	Lambert	0	0	0	0
Innovation Academy B	Milton	0	0	0	0
Chicago A	Purdue B	0	10	10	20
Illinois Blue	Notre Dame	0	0	10	10
Chicago B	Purdue A	0	0	10	10
Illinois Orange	SIUE	10	0	10	20