In one work, this thinker used the example of Castor and Pollux sleeping in alternating shifts to demonstrate that the soul is not always thinking. A chapter in a work by this thinker contrasts certain knowledge with arguments that are likely to be true based on “probability,” or agreement between our own and others’ experiences. This thinker described a central concept being affected by sensory experiences of intrinsic “primary qualities” and subjective “secondary qualities.” This thinker argued that reflection or sensation informs all “objects of thinking” to refute “innate ideas” in favor of the human mind as a blank slate, or tabula rasa. For 10 points, name this Enlightenment philosopher who wrote An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. ■END■
| Northern California | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 92.00 |
| Southern California | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 86.83 |
| Eastern Canada | Main | Y | 12 | 92% | 0% | 17% | 95.73 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 101.50 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 14% | 98.57 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 10% | 98.50 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic (1) | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 10% | 96.80 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic (2) | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 96.20 |
| Lower Midwest | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 97.25 |
| Lower Midwest | Main | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 123.00 |
| Upper Midwest | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 91.33 |
| North | Main | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 91.00 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 8% | 96.50 |
| Northwest | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 89.25 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 38% | 101.75 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 91.13 |
| UK | Main | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 102.00 |
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 25% | 103.67 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yihong Chen | Toronto C | Queen's B | 54 | -5 |
| Lucas Barnes | Missouri B | WashU C | 62 | -5 |
| Azura Gollamudi | Northwestern A | Iowa | 63 | -5 |
| Beckett Gilmore | Louisville A | Michigan D | 67 | -5 |
| Kaiwen Xiao | UCLA B | UCSB | 69 | 10 |
| Nelson Adams-Riley | Sewanee A | Vanderbilt A | 69 | 10 |
| Danny Peelen | Pitt A | OSU B | 69 | 10 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Purdue A | 69 | 10 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | Washington A | Alberta | 69 | 10 |
| Vincent Zhang | Penn A | Johns Hopkins A | 71 | -5 |
| Sam Alahi | Illinois B | Purdue B | 71 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | Tusculum | 71 | 10 |
| Ben Hellman | Swarthmore A | Lehigh A | 72 | -5 |
| Camden Walker | WashU B | WashU A | 72 | 10 |
| Vivian Malouf | Berkeley A | UCSC | 72 | 10 |
| Annika Larson | Claremont Scripps | UCLA C | 73 | 10 |
| Nikola Wu | UCLA A | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 73 | 10 |
| Benjamin Chapman | Toronto A | Toronto E | 73 | 10 |
| Omkar Marathe | Columbia A | Columbia B | 73 | 10 |
| Jason Lee | Rutgers B | Vassar A | 73 | 10 |
| Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech A | Auburn B | 73 | 10 |
| Will McCurley | Auburn A | Georgia Tech C | 73 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley B | Berkeley E | 73 | 10 |
| Stuart Chandler-Baas | Carleton | Toronto K | 73 | 10 |
| Mateo Acosta | FIU | USF | 73 | 10 |
| Roxanne Tang | OSU A | CWRU C | 73 | -5 |
| Arjun Kala | Illinois A | Chicago B | 73 | 10 |
| Ezra Santos | Chicago A | Illinois C | 73 | 10 |
| Hari Veginati | UIC | Michigan B | 73 | -5 |
| Nick Lane | George Washington A | Maryland D | 73 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Bowdoin B | 73 | 10 |
| Rajiv Pujara | Dartmouth | Tufts B | 73 | -5 |
| Matthew Wang | British Columbia D | British Columbia B | 73 | 10 |
| Keerthana Krishnan | Texas B | Alberta B | 73 | 10 |
| Young Fenimore Lee | Ohio | Arizona State A | 73 | 10 |
| Atharv Chowdhary | Brown A | Brandeis Clemenceau | 74 | 10 |
| Ethan Enochian | Purdue C | Notre Dame C | 77 | 10 |
| Zoe Wang | Carleton | Iowa State | 80 | 10 |
| Kevin Zheng | Michigan A | Kentucky | 81 | 10 |
| Charlie Ruff | McGill C | Toronto D | 83 | 10 |
| Swapnil Garg | Berkeley C | Stanford B | 83 | -5 |
| Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard | MIT B | 83 | 10 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto H | Toronto G | 89 | 10 |
| Kelvin Ni | NYU B | Maryland A | 90 | 10 |
| Joel Kim | Clemson A | Tennessee B | 91 | 10 |
| Tommy Donelon | Missouri B | WashU D | 95 | -5 |
| Randy Guo | Texas A | UCO | 95 | -5 |
| Asha Basu | McGill A | McMaster C | 97 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | UAB A | 98 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT B | Cornell-DII | 98 | 10 |
| James Meek | George Mason A | George Washington B | 98 | 10 |
| Dexter Hine | Simon Fraser | Washington B | 98 | 10 |
| Nihal Anand | UTD A | Northwestern C | 98 | -5 |
| Ian Theysmeyer | Queen's A | Guelph A | 99 | 10 |
| Yusuf Baig | McMaster A | Toronto F | 99 | -5 |
| Ankit Kawade | Johns Hopkins C | Penn B | 99 | 10 |
| Fern Fang | VCU A | Johns Hopkins B | 99 | 10 |
| Conner Yamnitz | WashU C | Truman State | 99 | 10 |
| Frank Schuster | MSU A | Pitt B | 99 | 10 |
| Ryan Sun | Berkeley D | Stanford C | 99 | 10 |
| Meredith Wiper | CWRU A | Pitt C | 99 | 10 |
| Nick Smemoe | North Carolina B | Virginia Tech A | 99 | 10 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | NYU A | Georgetown A | 99 | 10 |
| Kevin Liu | Maryland B | Notre Dame E | 99 | 10 |
| Luc Vulliez | Amherst B | Yale A | 99 | 10 |
| Eames Weeks | Brown B | BU | 99 | 10 |
| Michael Ai | Williams | Amherst A | 99 | 10 |
| Kevin Wang | British Columbia C | British Columbia A | 99 | -5 |
| Krishay Garg | UCLA D | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | 100 | 10 |
| Suren Grigorian | Berkeley F | Stanford A | 100 | 10 |
| Emmanuel Alayande | UF D | Melbourne B | 100 | 10 |
| Justin Hawkins | Indiana A | Chicago C | 100 | 10 |
| Reed Sexton | Michigan C | Louisville B | 100 | 10 |
| Aleks Kozlowski | Roanoke | Liberty A | 100 | 10 |
| Christopher Dech | Brandeis Wilson | Yale B | 100 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD Vices and Virtues | Claremont Pitzer | 101 | 10 |
| Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | Tulsa | 101 | 10 |
| S. A. Shenoy | Georgia Tech B | Mississippi State A | 101 | 10 |
| Danny Cutbill | RIT A | Binghamton A | 101 | 10 |
| Denali Tran-Le | McGill B | Toronto J | 101 | 10 |
| Tyler Thurman | SIUE | William Woods | 101 | 10 |
| Robert Chen | Rochester | Syracuse | 101 | -5 |
| Conner Khan | NC State | Tennessee A | 101 | 10 |
| Deeba Lealaz | Virginia B | North Carolina C | 101 | 10 |
| Shining Sun | BC A | Tufts A | 101 | 10 |
| Stefan Vlad | Ottawa | Toronto I | 102 | 10 |
| Jack Doyle | Catholic University | UMBC A | 102 | 10 |
| Sophia Peng | Rutgers C | Rowan A | 102 | 10 |
| Arhith Dharanendra | Georgia Tech D | Alabama A | 102 | 10 |
| Darren Kellis | Vanderbilt B | Huntsville B | 102 | 10 |
| Andrei Hui | Cambridge A | Imperial A | 102 | 10 |
| Adithya Parat | McMaster B | Toronto Metropolitan | 102 | 10 |
| Juan Landaeta | FSU | ERAU B | 102 | 10 |
| Sai Subramanian | CWRU B | MSU B | 102 | 10 |
| Shourjo Ganguli | OSU C | Kenyon A | 102 | 10 |
| Kyle Chua | CWRU D | OSU D | 102 | 10 |
| Patrick Boyle | Notre Dame B | Indiana B | 102 | 10 |
| Milo Scanlon | Macalester B | Minnesota A | 102 | 10 |
| Mason Lambert | James Madison | Liberty C | 102 | 10 |
| Jim Fan | North Carolina A | South Carolina A | 102 | 10 |
| John McQueen | South Carolina B | Virginia Tech B | 102 | 10 |
| Gabriel Avrahami | Georgetown B | George Mason C | 102 | 10 |
| Richard Lim | Bowdoin A | Brandeis Lloyd George | 102 | 10 |
| Ethan Erickson | BC B | Brown C | 102 | 10 |
| Vivienne Ruemmler | USC | UCI | 105 | 10 |
| David Bass | Johns Hopkins A | Penn A | 107 | 10 |
| Collin Leck | UCO | Texas A | 108 | 10 |
| James Ferrabee | McGill D | UTD B | 108 | 10 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | UF E | UCF A | 108 | 10 |
| Peyton Legg | UCF B | UF A | 109 | 10 |
| Alan Li | Cornell-UG | Brandeis Orlando | 109 | 10 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | Huntsville A | 111 | 10 |
| Shalin Zerbe | Binghamton B | ESF | 112 | 10 |
| Austin Guo | Princeton A | Lehigh B | 116 | 10 |
| Grant Koh | Michigan D | Louisville A | 116 | 10 |
| Ryan Fang | Stanford B | Berkeley C | 116 | 10 |
| Emily Snider | Liberty B | Clemson B | 116 | -5 |
| Gannon Rice | Clemson B | Liberty B | 116 | 10 |
| Platon Gorokhov | Toronto F | McMaster A | 117 | 10 |
| Sarah Khan | Queen's B | Toronto C | 117 | 10 |
| Nicholas Ryan | Lehigh A | Swarthmore A | 117 | 10 |
| Don Ung | WashU D | Missouri B | 117 | 10 |
| Cassidy McIntyre | Rose State | Arizona State B | 117 | 10 |
| Yash Modi | Western Ontario | Guelph B | 117 | 0 |
| Stephen Pace | Guelph B | Western Ontario | 117 | 0 |
| Niru Shakya | Melbourne A | ERAU A | 117 | 10 |
| August Szpak | CWRU C | OSU A | 117 | 10 |
| Eric Lipsutz | Chicago D | Notre Dame D | 117 | 0 |
| Emily Hackwelder | Notre Dame D | Chicago D | 117 | 10 |
| Aryan Desarapu | Michigan B | UIC | 117 | 10 |
| Caitlyn Begosa | Syracuse | Rochester | 117 | 0 |
| Devon Kumar | Tufts B | Dartmouth | 117 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | British Columbia A | British Columbia C | 117 | 10 |
| Brielle Rach | Iowa | Northwestern A | 117 | 10 |
| Matthew Vidal | Northwestern C | UTD A | 117 | 10 |
| Conner Yamnitz | WashU C | Missouri B | 123 | 10 |