Question
William Whewell used this philosopher to illustrate his notion of consilience, in which several explanations "leap to the same point.” In the introduction to A Treatise of Human Nature, Hume frames his method as an attempt to become “[this philosopher] of the mind.” This philosopher claimed that qualities of bodies determined through experiment could apply to all bodies universally in his controversial third “rule of reasoning.” This philosopher was defended by Samuel (*) Clarke in a debate with Gottfried Leibniz over his idea of absolute space. Émilie du Châtelet first stated the law of conservation of energy in her commentary on a book by this philosopher. This philosopher wrote ■END■
ANSWER: Isaac Newton [accept Newton’s laws of motion]
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= Average correct buzz position
Summary
| 2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 84.33 |
| 2024 ARGOS Online | 03/22/2025 | N | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 106.67 |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis | 03/22/2025 | N | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 92.33 |
| 2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 40% | 120.60 |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 102.50 |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 103.00 |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 124.00 |
Buzzes
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Lawrence | Walston et. al. | Cope is the thing with feathers | 72 | 10 |
| Ben Russell Jones | Simple Vibes | Cien Años de Quizboledad | 77 | -5 |
| Henry Atkins | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | 78 | 10 |
| Jason Golfinos | Where are the ACF Nationals recordings? | A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs | 83 | 10 |
| Ned Tagtmeier | The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day) | WashU | 84 | 10 |
| Vincent Du | number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku | Berkeley | 84 | 10 |
| Zach Joseph | Notre Dame | That Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days | 85 | 10 |
| Anuttam Ramji | Cry of the Common Loon | Stanford+ | 86 | 10 |
| Tejas Raje | BHSU Rebirth | Who is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus? | 87 | 10 |
| Emmett Laurie | jeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club | 12 Litres of Green Tea | 103 | 10 |
| Shiv Seshan | Cambridge | Limp Franceskit | 104 | 10 |
| Anwen Kelleher | NJ TRANSit (and anwen i guess) | just one more half-dot bro | 104 | -5 |
| Asha Basu | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | 104 | -5 |
| Todd Maslyk | Clown Senpais | Northeast by Northwestern | 110 | 10 |
| Kunaal Chandrashekar | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | 110 | 10 |
| Matt Bollinger | BHSU ReFantazio | Music to Help You Stop Smoking | 113 | 10 |
| Rayton Lin | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | 120 | -5 |
| Brendan Bethlehem | Cien Años de Quizboledad | Simple Vibes | 134 | 10 |
| Michael Wu | Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz | Defying Suavity | 134 | 10 |
| David Bass | just one more half-dot bro | NJ TRANSit (and anwen i guess) | 134 | 10 |
| Adrian Wong | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | 134 | 10 |
| Yashwanth Bajji | Clown Squad | hawk two of | 136 | 10 |
| Raymond Chen | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | 140 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | 141 | 10 |