primary qualities - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

In Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous, George Berkeley critiques the distinction between this property and its dependent counterpart that depends on sensation. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name these properties of objects that are “inseparable from the body” as defined by John Locke in a 1689 work. Examples of these observer-independent qualities include number, shape, and “solidity.”

ANSWER: primary qualities

[10e] Primary and secondary qualities are proposed in an essay concerning this subject by Locke that claims that the human mind is a tabula rasa. Hume discussed the missing shade of blue in an Enquiry Concerning this subject.

ANSWER: Human Understanding [accept An Essay Concerning Human Understanding or An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding; prompt on understanding]

[10h] This woman examined the “true grounds of morality” in a defence of Locke’s essay from critic Thomas Burnet. In a letter to Dr. Holdsworth, this woman attempts to vindicate John Locke’s “Christian Principles.”

ANSWER: Catharine Trotter Cockburn [or Catharine Trotter Cockburn (“CO-burn”)]

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Summary


California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
Canada	Main Site	Y	10	13.00	90%	40%	0%
Florida	Main Site	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	8	13.75	100%	38%	0%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	6	11.67	100%	17%	0%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
South Central	Main Site	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	7	10.00	86%	14%	0%
UK	Main Site	Y	12	9.17	83%	8%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	8	17.50	100%	75%	0%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	3	13.33	67%	67%	0%

Data


Berkeley B	Berkeley C	10	10	20
Stanford B	Berkeley A	0	10	10
Brock	McGill A	0	10	10
Carleton University	Toronto G	10	10	20
Guelph	Western A	0	10	10
McGill B	Waterloo B	0	0	0
Western C	McMaster A	0	10	10
Ottawa	McMaster B	10	10	20
Toronto Metropolitan	Queen's	0	10	10
Toronto B	Toronto E	10	10	20
Toronto C	UBC B	10	10	20
Western B	Simon Fraser	0	10	10
Berkeley D	Stanford A	0	0	0
Central Florida A	Central Florida B	0	10	10
Central Florida C	Florida A	0	10	10
Florida B	Florida C	0	10	10
Ohio State A	CWRU A	0	10	10
CWRU B	Michigan A	0	10	10
Michigan B	Ohio State B	10	10	20
Michigan C	Michigan State	0	10	10
Pittsburgh	Ohio State C	10	10	20
Northwestern B	Chicago C	0	10	10
Purdue B	Chicago A	0	10	10
Chicago B	Purdue A	10	10	20
Northwestern C	Indiana A	10	10	20
Indiana B	Notre Dame A	0	10	10
Illinois A	Chicago D	10	10	20
Dartmouth A	Bowdoin A	0	10	10
Brandeis B	Bowdoin B	0	10	10
Harvard B	Brown	0	10	10
Harvard A	Dartmouth B	10	10	20
Southern Connecticut State	MIT	0	10	10
Georgia Tech A	Claremont	0	10	10
Iowa State	Washington B	10	10	20
Missouri A	Carleton College	0	10	10
Missouri B	Washington A	0	10	10
Brandeis A	Yale	0	10	10
Murray State A	Texas A	0	10	10
Texas A&M A	Texas B	0	10	10
Illinois C	Illinois B	0	10	10
Alabama A	Georgia Tech B	0	10	10
Georgia Tech D	Bruin	0	10	10
Alabama B	Georgia Tech C	0	10	10
Tennessee B	Mississipi State	0	0	0
Louisville B	Sewanee	0	10	10
WashU A	Tennessee A	10	10	20
Kentucky	Vanderbilt B	0	10	10
Notre Dame B	Indiana C	0	10	10
Bristol	Oxford A	0	10	10
Cambridge C	Imperial C	0	0	0
Cardiff	Southampton A	0	0	0
City St. George's	Oxford B	0	10	10
Imperial A	Durham	0	10	10
Edinburgh A	Oxford C	0	10	10
LSE	Edinburgh B	10	10	20
Manchester	Montpellier	0	10	10
Imperial B	Southampton B	0	10	10
UCL	Cambridge B	0	10	10
Warwick A	Birmingham	0	10	10
Cambridge A	Warwick B	0	10	10
Columbia A	Vassar	10	10	20
Maryland C	Georgetown	0	10	10
NYU A	Johns Hopkins B	10	10	20
NYU B	Catholic	0	10	10
Swarthmore	NYU C	10	10	20
Cornell C	Binghamton A	0	0	0
RIT	Cornell B	10	10	20
Penn State	Rochester	10	10	20
John Jay	Maryland B	10	10	20
Columbia B	Johns Hopkins A	10	10	20
Maryland A	Columbia C	10	10	20