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■
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 04/19/2025 | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 25% | 103.67 |
| 2025 ACF Nationals | 2025-08-09 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 102.00 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 12 | 92% | 0% | 17% | 95.73 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 101.50 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 14% | 98.57 |
| Midwest | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 10% | 98.50 |
| North | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 10% | 96.80 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 96.20 |
| Overflow | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 97.25 |
| California | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 92.00 |
| Pacific Northwest | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 91.33 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 91.00 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 8% | 96.50 |
| UK | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 89.25 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 38% | 101.75 |
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 91.13 |
| Overflow | Main | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 123.00 |
| Canada | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 86.83 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley B | Berkeley E | 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 |
| Mateo Acosta | FIU | USF | 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 |
| Arjun Kala | Illinois A | Chicago B | 73 | 10 |
| Ezra Santos | Chicago A | Illinois C | 73 | 10 |
| Hari Veginati | UIC | Michigan B | 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 |
| Young Fenimore Lee | Ohio | Arizona State A | 73 | 10 |
| Keerthana Krishnan | Texas B | Alberta B | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | UAB A | 98 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT B | Cornell-DII | 98 | 10 |
| Ryan Sun | Berkeley D | Stanford C | 99 | 10 |
| Yusuf Baig | McMaster A | Toronto F | 99 | -5 |
| Ian Theysmeyer | Queen's A | Guelph A | 99 | 10 |
| Frank Schuster | MSU A | Pitt B | 99 | 10 |
| Meredith Wiper | CWRU A | Pitt C | 99 | 10 |
| Nick Smemoe | North Carolina B | Virginia Tech A | 99 | 10 |
| Kevin Liu | Maryland B | Notre Dame E | 99 | 10 |
| Fern Fang | VCU A | Johns Hopkins B | 99 | 10 |
| Ankit Kawade | Johns Hopkins C | Penn B | 99 | 10 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | NYU A | Georgetown A | 99 | 10 |
| Conner Yamnitz | WashU C | Truman State | 99 | 10 |
| Eames Weeks | Brown B | BU | 99 | 10 |
| Michael Ai | Williams | Amherst A | 99 | 10 |
| Luc Vulliez | Amherst B | Yale A | 99 | 10 |
| Kevin Wang | British Columbia C | British Columbia A | 99 | -5 |
| Suren Grigorian | Berkeley F | Stanford A | 100 | 10 |
| Krishay Garg | UCLA D | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | 100 | 10 |
| Emmanuel Alayande | UF D | Melbourne B | 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 |
| Christopher Dech | Brandeis Wilson | Yale B | 100 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD Vices and Virtues | Claremont Pitzer | 101 | 10 |
| Denali Tran-Le | McGill B | Toronto J | 101 | 10 |
| Deeba Lealaz | Virginia B | North Carolina C | 101 | 10 |
| Conner Khan | NC State | Tennessee A | 101 | 10 |
| Tyler Thurman | SIUE | William Woods | 101 | 10 |
| Shining Sun | BC A | Tufts A | 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 |
| Robert Chen | Rochester | Syracuse | 101 | -5 |
| Stefan Vlad | Ottawa | Toronto I | 102 | 10 |
| Adithya Parat | McMaster B | Toronto Metropolitan | 102 | 10 |
| Juan Landaeta | FSU | ERAU B | 102 | 10 |
| Kyle Chua | CWRU D | OSU D | 102 | 10 |
| Shourjo Ganguli | OSU C | Kenyon A | 102 | 10 |
| Sai Subramanian | CWRU B | MSU B | 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 |
| Jack Doyle | Catholic University | UMBC A | 102 | 10 |
| Gabriel Avrahami | Georgetown B | George Mason C | 102 | 10 |
| Sophia Peng | Rutgers C | Rowan A | 102 | 10 |
| Patrick Boyle | Notre Dame B | Indiana B | 102 | 10 |
| Milo Scanlon | Macalester B | Minnesota A | 102 | 10 |
| Ethan Erickson | BC B | Brown C | 102 | 10 |
| Richard Lim | Bowdoin A | Brandeis Lloyd George | 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 |
| 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 |
| Austin Guo | Princeton A | Lehigh B | 116 | 10 |
| Grant Koh | Michigan D | Louisville A | 116 | 10 |
| Yash Modi | Western Ontario | Guelph B | 117 | 0 |
| Platon Gorokhov | Toronto F | McMaster A | 117 | 10 |
| Sarah Khan | Queen's B | Toronto C | 117 | 10 |
| Stephen Pace | Guelph B | Western Ontario | 117 | 0 |
| Niru Shakya | Melbourne A | ERAU A | 117 | 10 |
| August Szpak | CWRU C | OSU A | 117 | 10 |
| Nicholas Ryan | Lehigh A | Swarthmore A | 117 | 10 |
| Don Ung | WashU D | Missouri B | 117 | 10 |
| Emily Hackwelder | Notre Dame D | Chicago D | 117 | 10 |
| Eric Lipsutz | Chicago D | Notre Dame D | 117 | 0 |
| Aryan Desarapu | Michigan B | UIC | 117 | 10 |
| Devon Kumar | Tufts B | Dartmouth | 117 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | British Columbia A | British Columbia C | 117 | 10 |
| Cassidy McIntyre | Rose State | Arizona State B | 117 | 10 |
| Brielle Rach | Iowa | Northwestern A | 117 | 10 |
| Matthew Vidal | Northwestern C | UTD A | 117 | 10 |
| Caitlyn Begosa | Syracuse | Rochester | 117 | 0 |
| Conner Yamnitz | WashU C | Missouri B | 123 | 10 |