Question
This thinker defined perception as a representation of “expression” or “the many in the one” in a letter to Des Bosses, a translator of his work. This thinker gave one of the earliest explorations of unconscious perception in a dialogue between Theophilus and Philalethes that critiques a rival chapter-by-chapter. David Chalmers claims that the inspiration for his philosophical zombie thought experiment rests in this thinker’s mill argument. This thinker argued that all things are composed of (*) simple perceiving extensionless parts, and he rejected the theory of mind-body interaction in favor of pre-established harmony. For 10 points, name this thinker who wrote the monadology and argued that we live in the best of all possible worlds. ■END■
Summary
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont | 2024-11-02 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 87.67 |
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 4 | 100% | 25% | 50% | 94.75 |
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 7 | 100% | 29% | 14% | 88.29 |
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 84.50 |
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 100% | 25% | 25% | 102.50 |
2024 ARCADIA at BU | 2024-12-06 | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 33% | 108.80 |
2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 25% | 106.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 80% | 20% | 20% | 78.50 |
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 114.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at Duke | 2024-12-06 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 33% | 95.33 |
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 50% | 50% | 90.50 |
2024 ARCADIA Online | 2025-05-17 | Y | 5 | 80% | 40% | 40% | 82.00 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Seraphina Charlotte Foo | Cambridge A | LSE A | 20 | 15 |
Micah Colman | Waterloo Basic | McGill A | 41 | -5 |
Daniel Ma | Madmen and Specialists | Toyota Tundra Turbos — Twisting Truths - Tackling Trivia - Taming Titans | 42 | -5 |
Gabriel Margolies | Boston College B | MIT | 43 | -5 |
Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | North Carolina B | 43 | -5 |
Gabe Forrest | Squidward Community College | Truman | 43 | -5 |
Charan Pratapaneni | The cult of SGA | Old and Young | 43 | 0 |
Vivian Malouf | In the Mood for Buzz | Social credit go vroom | 43 | 15 |
Young Fenimore Lee | Old and Young | The cult of SGA | 43 | -5 |
Logan Mathis | SIUE | Chicago B | 44 | -5 |
John Marvin | Chicago A | Notre Dame | 46 | -5 |
Quentin Mot | Georgia Tech B | Innovation Academy C | 48 | -5 |
Michael Hunding | Illinois Orange | Purdue A | 52 | 15 |
Michal Gerasimiuk | Stanford | Berkeley B | 54 | -5 |
Neal Joshi | WashU | Missouri | 66 | 15 |
Ariel Faeder | Pitt | Maryland | 66 | 15 |
Will Alston | SGV Ventures | ALCU | 66 | 15 |
Joel Miles | Paddington in Peru (2024) | she limp on my waltz till i feel pathetique | 68 | 15 |
Alexander Nichols | UCF A | USF | 68 | 15 |
Orion Keller | Virginia Tech B | South Carolina | 69 | 15 |
Liam Kusalik | Waterloo Aspidistra | Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom | 69 | 15 |
Liam Kusalik | Waterloo Aspidistra | Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom | 69 | 15 |
Leo Law | UF A | Valencia | 77 | -5 |
Aalok Bhattacharya | Boston College A | Yale | 78 | -5 |
Rayton Lin | Waterloo Cloze | Toronto Metropolitan A | 79 | 10 |
Benjamin Chapman | Toronto A | Toronto Disband the Club 2k24 | 82 | 10 |
Andy Huff | LSE B | Bristol | 89 | 10 |
Cormac Stephenson | Southampton | Imperial A | 92 | 10 |
Justine French | U[C]SD | Anderson et al. | 95 | 10 |
Nitin Rao | Harvard | Bowdoin A | 98 | 10 |
Shiv Seshan | Cambridge B | Warwick C | 98 | -5 |
Yrwin Batan | MIT | Boston College B | 102 | 10 |
Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford | North Carolina A | Virginia Tech C | 102 | 10 |
Alan Xie | bingy academy | ASU->Stanford->ASU pipeline | 102 | 10 |
Yihong Chen | Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha | Carleton A | 102 | 10 |
Kunaal Chandrashekar | Toronto B | McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii | 102 | 10 |
Manu Sankaran | Lambert | Milton | 102 | 10 |
Rohan Dalal | Georgia Tech A | Innovation Academy A | 102 | 10 |
Jacob Finley | Notre Dame | Chicago A | 102 | 10 |
Kevin Park | Claremont | Jason et al. | 102 | 10 |
Cade Reinberger | RIT | Penn State | 103 | 10 |
Andrew Wang | Illinois Blue | Purdue B | 110 | 10 |
Graham Cope | UF B | Florida Tech | 112 | 10 |
Anuttam Ramji | Berkeley B | Stanford | 113 | 10 |
Chris Levesley | Warwick A | Warwick B | 113 | 10 |
William Orr | Yale | Boston College A | 114 | 10 |
Towery McNeil | Mississippi State | Johns Creek | 114 | 10 |
Karan Shome | BU | Clark House | 115 | 0 |
Kayla Drajpuch | Brandeis B | Tufts A | 115 | 10 |
Richard Lin | Amherst | Brandeis A | 115 | 10 |
Derek Fino | Clark House | BU | 115 | 0 |
Rasheeq Azad | North Carolina B | Virginia Tech A | 115 | 10 |
Donal Ryan | Truman | Squidward Community College | 115 | 10 |
Camden Williams | Toyota Tundra Turbos — Twisting Truths - Tackling Trivia - Taming Titans | Madmen and Specialists | 115 | 10 |
Nicholas Nguyen | UF C | UCF B | 115 | 10 |
Clete Reinberger | Valencia | UF A | 115 | 10 |
Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley A | Berkeley Past | 115 | 10 |
Asha Basu | McGill A | Waterloo Basic | 115 | 10 |
Arjun Nair | Innovation Academy C | Georgia Tech B | 115 | 0 |
Samarth Ram | Chicago B | SIUE | 115 | 10 |
Josh Howarth | Warwick C | Cambridge B | 115 | 0 |