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 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | Washington A | Alberta | 69 | 10 |
| Kaiwen Xiao | UCLA B | UCSB | 69 | 10 |
| Danny Peelen | Pitt A | OSU B | 69 | 10 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Purdue A | 69 | 10 |
| Nelson Adams-Riley | Sewanee A | Vanderbilt A | 69 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | Tusculum | 71 | 10 |
| Vincent Zhang | Penn A | Johns Hopkins A | 71 | -5 |
| Sam Alahi | Illinois B | Purdue B | 71 | 10 |
| Vivian Malouf | Berkeley A | UCSC | 72 | 10 |
| Ben Hellman | Swarthmore A | Lehigh A | 72 | -5 |
| Camden Walker | WashU B | WashU A | 72 | 10 |
| Benjamin Chapman | Toronto A | Toronto E | 73 | 10 |
| Roxanne Tang | OSU A | CWRU C | 73 | -5 |
| Nick Lane | George Washington A | Maryland D | 73 | 10 |
| Omkar Marathe | Columbia A | Columbia B | 73 | 10 |
| Jason Lee | Rutgers B | Vassar A | 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 |
| Annika Larson | Claremont Scripps | UCLA C | 73 | 10 |
| Nikola Wu | UCLA A | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 73 | 10 |
| Hari Veginati | UIC | Michigan B | 73 | -5 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Bowdoin B | 73 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley B | Berkeley E | 73 | 10 |
| Stuart Chandler-Baas | Carleton | Toronto K | 73 | 10 |
| Mateo Acosta | FIU | USF | 73 | 10 |
| Arjun Kala | Illinois A | Chicago B | 73 | 10 |
| Ezra Santos | Chicago A | Illinois C | 73 | 10 |
| Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech A | Auburn B | 73 | 10 |
| Will McCurley | Auburn A | Georgia Tech C | 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 |
| Swapnil Garg | Berkeley C | Stanford B | 83 | -5 |
| Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard | MIT B | 83 | 10 |
| Charlie Ruff | McGill C | Toronto D | 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 |
| Randy Guo | Texas A | UCO | 95 | -5 |
| Tommy Donelon | Missouri B | WashU D | 95 | -5 |
| Asha Basu | McGill A | McMaster C | 97 | 10 |
| Dexter Hine | Simon Fraser | Washington B | 98 | 10 |
| Nihal Anand | UTD A | Northwestern C | 98 | -5 |
| James Meek | George Mason A | George Washington B | 98 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | UAB A | 98 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT B | Cornell-DII | 98 | 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 |
| Eames Weeks | Brown B | BU | 99 | 10 |
| Michael Ai | Williams | Amherst A | 99 | 10 |
| Kevin Wang | British Columbia C | British Columbia A | 99 | -5 |
| Ian Theysmeyer | Queen's A | Guelph A | 99 | 10 |
| Yusuf Baig | McMaster A | Toronto F | 99 | -5 |
| Frank Schuster | MSU A | Pitt B | 99 | 10 |
| Ankit Kawade | Johns Hopkins C | Penn B | 99 | 10 |
| Fern Fang | VCU A | Johns Hopkins B | 99 | 10 |
| Luc Vulliez | Amherst B | Yale A | 99 | 10 |
| Conner Yamnitz | WashU C | Truman State | 99 | 10 |
| Krishay Garg | UCLA D | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | 100 | 10 |
| Aleks Kozlowski | Roanoke | Liberty A | 100 | 10 |
| Christopher Dech | Brandeis Wilson | Yale B | 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 |
| Deeba Lealaz | Virginia B | North Carolina C | 101 | 10 |
| Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | Tulsa | 101 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD Vices and Virtues | Claremont Pitzer | 101 | 10 |
| Conner Khan | NC State | Tennessee A | 101 | 10 |
| Shining Sun | BC A | Tufts A | 101 | 10 |
| Denali Tran-Le | McGill B | Toronto J | 101 | 10 |
| Tyler Thurman | SIUE | William Woods | 101 | 10 |
| S. A. Shenoy | Georgia Tech B | Mississippi State A | 101 | 10 |
| Danny Cutbill | RIT A | Binghamton A | 101 | 10 |
| Robert Chen | Rochester | Syracuse | 101 | -5 |
| Stefan Vlad | Ottawa | Toronto I | 102 | 10 |
| Sai Subramanian | CWRU B | MSU B | 102 | 10 |
| Mason Lambert | James Madison | Liberty C | 102 | 10 |
| John McQueen | South Carolina B | Virginia Tech B | 102 | 10 |
| Gabriel Avrahami | Georgetown B | George Mason C | 102 | 10 |
| Sophia Peng | Rutgers C | Rowan A | 102 | 10 |
| Ethan Erickson | BC B | Brown C | 102 | 10 |
| Shourjo Ganguli | OSU C | Kenyon A | 102 | 10 |
| Kyle Chua | CWRU D | OSU D | 102 | 10 |
| Jim Fan | North Carolina A | South Carolina A | 102 | 10 |
| Jack Doyle | Catholic University | UMBC A | 102 | 10 |
| Milo Scanlon | Macalester B | Minnesota A | 102 | 10 |
| Richard Lim | Bowdoin A | Brandeis Lloyd George | 102 | 10 |
| Adithya Parat | McMaster B | Toronto Metropolitan | 102 | 10 |
| Juan Landaeta | FSU | ERAU B | 102 | 10 |
| Patrick Boyle | Notre Dame B | Indiana B | 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 |
| 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 |
| Alan Li | Cornell-UG | Brandeis Orlando | 109 | 10 |
| Peyton Legg | UCF B | UF A | 109 | 10 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | Huntsville A | 111 | 10 |
| Shalin Zerbe | Binghamton B | ESF | 112 | 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 |
| Austin Guo | Princeton A | Lehigh B | 116 | 10 |
| Grant Koh | Michigan D | Louisville A | 116 | 10 |
| Sarah Khan | Queen's B | Toronto C | 117 | 10 |
| August Szpak | CWRU C | OSU A | 117 | 10 |
| Nicholas Ryan | Lehigh A | Swarthmore A | 117 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Cassidy McIntyre | Rose State | Arizona State B | 117 | 10 |
| Platon Gorokhov | Toronto F | McMaster A | 117 | 10 |
| Aryan Desarapu | Michigan B | UIC | 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 |
| Don Ung | WashU D | Missouri B | 117 | 10 |
| Eric Lipsutz | Chicago D | Notre Dame D | 117 | 0 |
| Emily Hackwelder | Notre Dame D | Chicago D | 117 | 10 |
| Caitlyn Begosa | Syracuse | Rochester | 117 | 0 |
| Conner Yamnitz | WashU C | Missouri B | 123 | 10 |