This idea is supported by the MPA and “temporal-contingency” arguments of Robert Maydole. A namesake text by Graham Oppy divides this idea into six subtypes. This idea has a “victorious” version outlined in the book The Nature of Necessity. Charles Hartshorne used the idea of dipolar attributes as the basis for the “cumulative case” strategy to amend this idea. This idea is extended in the fifth section of (*) Meditations on First Philosophy by Descartes, as well as in a “modal” version by Alvin Plantinga. This argument is attacked in the text In Behalf of the Fool through a “Lost Island” rebuttal created by Gaunilo. This argument first appeared in the Proslogion and imagines a “supremely perfect” entity. For 10 points, name this argument for the existence of God put forward by Saint Anselm, which is named for the philosophical study of being. ■END■
| 2025 PLAYTIME Online | 04/26/2025 | Y | 9 | 100% | 22% | 33% | 100.11 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard | 04/26/2025 | Y | 4 | 100% | 25% | 50% | 95.25 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech | 07/11/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 102.33 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC | 10/05/2024 | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 38% | 117.71 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU | 10/12/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 17% | 17% | 96.50 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU | 10/26/2024 | Y | 7 | 71% | 0% | 43% | 113.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest | 12/10/2024 | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 50% | 114.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont | 12/10/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 112.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida | 12/10/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 109.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU | 12/10/2024 | Y | 5 | 60% | 40% | 40% | 55.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield | 12/10/2024 | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 14% | 122.29 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reed Sexton | Michigan B | Michigan C | 26 | -5 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pittsburgh | Ohio State B | 31 | 15 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Egypt Airlines Haters | Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team | 33 | 15 |
| Eric Mukherjee | Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion | Free Agents 1 | 34 | 15 |
| Kevin Zheng | Michigan A | Oberlin | 34 | 15 |
| Brodie Henry | Auburn 2026 | we need new names | 39 | -5 |
| Alex Jiang | Brown | Brandeis | 43 | 15 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri | Iowa State | 43 | 15 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65 | Somehow Paula Deen Returned | 54 | -5 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Mac A | 68 | -5 |
| Sam Alahi | Illinois B | WashU Squirtle | 71 | 10 |
| Zaid Asif | NYU C | NYU A | 73 | -5 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | UW A | Alberta | 73 | -5 |
| Chris Yoo | Mahjonng Masters | Illinois Orange | 73 | -5 |
| Gregory Zeldovich | Belmont | BU | 80 | -5 |
| Shishir Bharadwaj | Lexington | MIT | 80 | -5 |
| Jonathan Shauf | Even in Blacksburg There I Am | Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race | 80 | 10 |
| Adsayan Ganesh | Warwick B | Warwick C | 83 | -5 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | Waterloo B | 83 | -5 |
| Eli Issokson | Georgetown | Haverford B | 83 | -5 |
| Liam Kusalik | Waterloo A | Toronto A | 83 | 10 |
| Daniel Ma | Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky | evil women enjoyers | 84 | 10 |
| Alexander Nichols | Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison | Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses | 85 | 10 |
| Vincent Du | 4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina | Master and Margaritaville | 85 | 10 |
| Stan | Gruh | Four Generalists in Search of a Power | 87 | 10 |
| Charlie Ruff | McGill B | Toronto D | 87 | -5 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State University A | UW B | 90 | 10 |
| Asha Basu | McGill A | Waterloo C | 92 | 10 |
| Elie Aoun | CWRU | Rutgers | 95 | 10 |
| David Allen | Edinburgh | Imperial A | 95 | 10 |
| Michael Hunding | Illinois A | WashU Bulbasaur | 96 | 10 |
| Sam McNamee | Notre Dame + Epic Games | mongeese | 99 | -5 |
| Nathan Easow | Manchester | Warwick A | 99 | 10 |
| Anderson Wang | Art of Premature Signaling | UCSB | 100 | 10 |
| Vivian Malouf | girl 15 whale i mean they | UCSD | 100 | 10 |
| Hayden Prather | Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again | Too much from you lately | 100 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT | Harvard | 100 | 10 |
| Benny Feldman | Chicago A | Truman State | 100 | -5 |
| Daniel Huang | Michigan D | Ohio State D | 100 | 10 |
| Alan Kappler | Claremont B | UCLA A | 103 | 10 |
| Lyle Brenner | Billy's Bastion | Keeping Up With the Cardassians | 103 | -5 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT | Lexington | 103 | 10 |
| Isaac Mammel | Maryland A | Catholic University of America | 103 | 10 |
| Joey Sun | Toronto C | Toronto B | 103 | 10 |
| Logan Mathis | SIUE | Chicago B | 103 | 10 |
| Ben Spirtas | Maryland B | George Mason A | 110 | 10 |
| Aditya Shivaswamy | Johns Hopkins A | George Mason C | 115 | 10 |
| Jacob Cohen | UCLA B | P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B | 116 | 10 |
| Eoin Neale | Lancaster | Imperial B | 116 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | UBC | Guelph | 121 | 10 |
| Liam Markland | Alberta | UW A | 122 | 10 |
| John John Groger | WashU Charmander | Illinois C | 124 | 10 |
| Lesley Kwarteng | Johns Hopkins B | George Washington | 127 | -5 |
| Rhys Lewis | Sheffield | LSE | 127 | 10 |
| Padraig Finan | Washington Connections | Carleton | 129 | -5 |
| Sheehan Banka | Quatumvirate | MSJ | 129 | 10 |
| Matthew Rittenberg | Arizona State University B | South Dakota School of Mines | 130 | 10 |
| Robert Szot | 2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles | Goober Gang | 130 | 10 |
| Vikram Narasimhan | Illinois Orange | Mahjonng Masters | 132 | 10 |
| Roxanne Tang | Ohio State A | Ohio State C | 133 | -5 |
| Arav Kaushik | we need new names | Auburn 2026 | 134 | 10 |
| Eren Michelet | BU | Belmont | 135 | 10 |
| Ben Richards | Sheffield C | Sheffield B | 135 | 10 |
| Ryan Smith | mongeese | Notre Dame + Epic Games | 138 | 10 |
| Benjamin Yang | Caltech | Claremont A | 141 | 10 |
| Halee Carey | Mac A | Toronto Metropolitan | 141 | 10 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | Keeping Up With the Cardassians | Billy's Bastion | 142 | 10 |
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU A | NYU C | 142 | 10 |
| Danny Fisher | Warwick C | Warwick B | 142 | 10 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto D | McGill B | 142 | 10 |
| Caleb Ott | Waterloo B | Simon Fraser | 142 | 0 |
| Subhamitra Banerjee Roychoudhury | Somehow Paula Deen Returned | Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65 | 142 | 10 |
| Fred Garvey | Truman State | Chicago A | 142 | 10 |
| Danel Fernandez | Ohio State C | Ohio State A | 142 | 0 |
| Will Snyder | Haverford B | Georgetown | 142 | 0 |
| Sam Hastings | Birmingham | Cambridge | 142 | 10 |
| Aedan Cooper | Ottawa A | Toronto E | 142 | 0 |
| Jason Panusopone | Toronto E | Ottawa A | 142 | 10 |