Question

Juhana Toivanen has argued that the epistemological understanding of this thought experiment by thinkers such as Vital du Four represents a break from the ontological interpretation of Jean de La Rochelle. Ambiguities in the interpretation of this thought experiment arose from how Dominicus Gundissalinus (“goon-dee-sah-LEE-noos”) and Avendauth (“ah-ven-DOWTH”) used different phrases to render the same word in the first Latin translation. This thought experiment begins by asking the reader to imagine that they were created in a “single stroke, fully (10[1])developed (10[1])and perfectly formed” (10[3])in its presentation at the end of the first chapter of a 12th-century book (10[1])translated (10[1])as (10[1])De Anima (“day AH-nee-mah”). A figure (10[1]-5[1])whose limbs cannot touch (10[1])each (10[1])other (10[4])is used (10[1])to prove the existence (10[1])of the soul in, for 10 points, what thought experiment about a person without sensory (10[1])experience, proposed by Avicenna? (10[1]-5[1])■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: the floating man [or flying man; or man suspended in air; or hanging man; or al-rajul al-mu‘aliq]
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= Average correct buzz position

Summary

2025 ACF Nationals04/19/2025Y20100%0%10%102.05

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Henry BonWinona StateToronto B7710
Colin VeeversOttawaCornell A7810
Amogh KulkarniGeorgia StateJohns Hopkins8110
Chris SimsNorthwesternStanford8110
Bryan UgazArizona StateWaterloo B8110
Jonathan ShaufNorth Carolina AWaterloo A9510
Yashwanth BajjiMichiganMinnesota9610
Danila KabotyanskiIndianaIowa State9710
June YinWUSTL BColumbia A10110
Shourjo GanguliOhio StateUCF101-5
Ben WismathToronto CRIT10510
Arjun KalaIllinois BFlorida10610
Albert Yingzhi NyangLSEVanderbilt10710
Michael HundingIllinois AVirginia10710
Kevin WangGeorgia TechToronto A10710
Kevin PengCornell BYale10710
Mitch McCullarPenn StateNYU10910
Joy AnHarvardMaryland11310
Jeremy CummingsWUSTL AMIT12810
Shiva TegullaUCFOhio State13210
Soren HeydariNorth Carolina BTexas132-5
Jisoo YooTexasNorth Carolina B13310