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 |
| Nelson Adams-Riley | Sewanee A | Vanderbilt A | 69 | 10 |
| Kaiwen Xiao | UCLA B | UCSB | 69 | 10 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Purdue A | 69 | 10 |
| Danny Peelen | Pitt A | OSU B | 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 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley B | Berkeley E | 73 | 10 |
| Mateo Acosta | FIU | USF | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Stuart Chandler-Baas | Carleton | Toronto K | 73 | 10 |
| Arjun Kala | Illinois A | Chicago B | 73 | 10 |
| Ezra Santos | Chicago A | Illinois C | 73 | 10 |
| Hari Veginati | UIC | Michigan B | 73 | -5 |
| Roxanne Tang | OSU A | CWRU C | 73 | -5 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Randy Guo | Texas A | UCO | 95 | -5 |
| Tommy Donelon | Missouri B | WashU D | 95 | -5 |
| Asha Basu | McGill A | McMaster C | 97 | 10 |
| James Meek | George Mason A | George Washington B | 98 | 10 |
| Nihal Anand | UTD A | Northwestern C | 98 | -5 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | UAB A | 98 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT B | Cornell-DII | 98 | 10 |
| Dexter Hine | Simon Fraser | Washington B | 98 | 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 |
| Ian Theysmeyer | Queen's A | Guelph A | 99 | 10 |
| Yusuf Baig | McMaster A | Toronto F | 99 | -5 |
| Conner Yamnitz | WashU C | Truman State | 99 | 10 |
| Ryan Sun | Berkeley D | Stanford C | 99 | 10 |
| Frank Schuster | MSU A | Pitt B | 99 | 10 |
| Meredith Wiper | CWRU A | Pitt C | 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 |
| Suren Grigorian | Berkeley F | Stanford A | 100 | 10 |
| Emmanuel Alayande | UF D | Melbourne B | 100 | 10 |
| Krishay Garg | UCLA D | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | 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 |
| Deeba Lealaz | Virginia B | North Carolina C | 101 | 10 |
| Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | Tulsa | 101 | 10 |
| S. A. Shenoy | Georgia Tech B | Mississippi State A | 101 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD Vices and Virtues | Claremont Pitzer | 101 | 10 |
| Denali Tran-Le | McGill B | Toronto J | 101 | 10 |
| Tyler Thurman | SIUE | William Woods | 101 | 10 |
| Danny Cutbill | RIT A | Binghamton A | 101 | 10 |
| Robert Chen | Rochester | Syracuse | 101 | -5 |
| Conner Khan | NC State | Tennessee A | 101 | 10 |
| Shining Sun | BC A | Tufts A | 101 | 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 |
| 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 |
| Stefan Vlad | Ottawa | Toronto I | 102 | 10 |
| Adithya Parat | McMaster B | Toronto Metropolitan | 102 | 10 |
| Patrick Boyle | Notre Dame B | Indiana 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 |
| Mason Lambert | James Madison | Liberty C | 102 | 10 |
| Jim Fan | North Carolina A | South Carolina 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Niru Shakya | Melbourne A | ERAU A | 117 | 10 |
| Nicholas Ryan | Lehigh A | Swarthmore A | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Caitlyn Begosa | Syracuse | Rochester | 117 | 0 |
| August Szpak | CWRU C | OSU A | 117 | 10 |
| Devon Kumar | Tufts B | Dartmouth | 117 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | British Columbia A | British Columbia C | 117 | 10 |
| Conner Yamnitz | WashU C | Missouri B | 123 | 10 |