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 |
| Danny Peelen | Pitt A | OSU B | 69 | 10 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Purdue A | 69 | 10 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | Washington A | Alberta | 69 | 10 |
| Nelson Adams-Riley | Sewanee A | Vanderbilt A | 69 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | Tusculum | 71 | 10 |
| Sam Alahi | Illinois B | Purdue B | 71 | 10 |
| Vincent Zhang | Penn A | Johns Hopkins A | 71 | -5 |
| Vivian Malouf | Berkeley A | UCSC | 72 | 10 |
| Camden Walker | WashU B | WashU A | 72 | 10 |
| Ben Hellman | Swarthmore A | Lehigh A | 72 | -5 |
| Annika Larson | Claremont Scripps | UCLA C | 73 | 10 |
| Nikola Wu | UCLA A | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 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 |
| Keerthana Krishnan | Texas B | Alberta B | 73 | 10 |
| Young Fenimore Lee | Ohio | Arizona State 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 |
| Benjamin Chapman | Toronto A | Toronto E | 73 | 10 |
| Stuart Chandler-Baas | Carleton | Toronto K | 73 | 10 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Charlie Ruff | McGill C | Toronto D | 83 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Dexter Hine | Simon Fraser | Washington B | 98 | 10 |
| Nihal Anand | UTD A | Northwestern C | 98 | -5 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | UAB A | 98 | 10 |
| James Meek | George Mason A | George Washington B | 98 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT B | Cornell-DII | 98 | 10 |
| Ryan Sun | Berkeley D | Stanford C | 99 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Meredith Wiper | CWRU A | Pitt C | 99 | 10 |
| Conner Yamnitz | WashU C | Truman State | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Aleks Kozlowski | Roanoke | Liberty A | 100 | 10 |
| Justin Hawkins | Indiana A | Chicago C | 100 | 10 |
| Reed Sexton | Michigan C | Louisville B | 100 | 10 |
| Suren Grigorian | Berkeley F | Stanford A | 100 | 10 |
| Emmanuel Alayande | UF D | Melbourne B | 100 | 10 |
| Christopher Dech | Brandeis Wilson | Yale B | 100 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD Vices and Virtues | Claremont Pitzer | 101 | 10 |
| Conner Khan | NC State | Tennessee A | 101 | 10 |
| Tyler Thurman | SIUE | William Woods | 101 | 10 |
| Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | Tulsa | 101 | 10 |
| S. A. Shenoy | Georgia Tech B | Mississippi State A | 101 | 10 |
| Denali Tran-Le | McGill B | Toronto J | 101 | 10 |
| Deeba Lealaz | Virginia B | North Carolina C | 101 | 10 |
| Shining Sun | BC A | Tufts A | 101 | 10 |
| Danny Cutbill | RIT A | Binghamton A | 101 | 10 |
| Robert Chen | Rochester | Syracuse | 101 | -5 |
| Sai Subramanian | CWRU B | MSU B | 102 | 10 |
| Shourjo Ganguli | OSU C | Kenyon A | 102 | 10 |
| Kyle Chua | CWRU D | OSU D | 102 | 10 |
| Mason Lambert | James Madison | Liberty C | 102 | 10 |
| Jim Fan | North Carolina A | South Carolina A | 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 |
| Stefan Vlad | Ottawa | Toronto I | 102 | 10 |
| Adithya Parat | McMaster B | Toronto Metropolitan | 102 | 10 |
| Juan Landaeta | FSU | ERAU B | 102 | 10 |
| John McQueen | South Carolina B | Virginia Tech B | 102 | 10 |
| Gabriel Avrahami | Georgetown B | George Mason C | 102 | 10 |
| Jack Doyle | Catholic University | UMBC A | 102 | 10 |
| Sophia Peng | Rutgers C | Rowan A | 102 | 10 |
| Milo Scanlon | Macalester B | Minnesota A | 102 | 10 |
| Richard Lim | Bowdoin A | Brandeis Lloyd George | 102 | 10 |
| Ethan Erickson | BC B | Brown C | 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 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | UF E | UCF A | 108 | 10 |
| Collin Leck | UCO | Texas A | 108 | 10 |
| James Ferrabee | McGill D | UTD B | 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 |
| Ryan Fang | Stanford B | Berkeley C | 116 | 10 |
| Emily Snider | Liberty B | Clemson B | 116 | -5 |
| Gannon Rice | Clemson B | Liberty B | 116 | 10 |
| Grant Koh | Michigan D | Louisville A | 116 | 10 |
| Austin Guo | Princeton A | Lehigh B | 116 | 10 |
| Platon Gorokhov | Toronto F | McMaster A | 117 | 10 |
| August Szpak | CWRU C | OSU 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 |
| Aryan Desarapu | Michigan B | UIC | 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 |
| Sarah Khan | Queen's B | Toronto C | 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 |
| 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 |
| Caitlyn Begosa | Syracuse | Rochester | 117 | 0 |
| Conner Yamnitz | WashU C | Missouri B | 123 | 10 |