Question
The introduction to this text uses the example of hearing the sound of crashing waves all together, rather than separately, to explain its author’s concept of “small perceptions.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this work, which claims that “nothing is in the intellect which was not first in the senses, except the intellect itself.” This work argues that the mind is not a “blank tablet,” but a veined block of marble.
ANSWER: New Essays On Human Understanding [or New Essays Concerning Human Understanding; or Nouveaux Essais Sur l’Entendement Humaine]
[10e] The New Essays Concerning Human Understanding lay out the epistemology of this German polymath, whose optimistic philosophy, as evidenced in his Theodicy, was satirized by Voltaire.
ANSWER: Gottfried (Wilhelm) Leibniz
[10m] Leibniz’s theory of human souls was critically discussed in the “Rorarius” entry of this encyclopedic work by the skeptical philosopher Pierre Bayle.
ANSWER: Historical and Critical Dictionary [or Dictionnaire Historique et Critique]
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Summary
| 2023 BHSU @ Berkeley | 03/18/2023 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Maryland | 03/11/2023 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Northwestern | 02/25/2023 | Y | 6 | 21.67 | 100% | 67% | 50% |
| 2023 BHSU Online | 04/15/2023 | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Sheffield | 04/15/2023 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Waterloo | 04/15/2023 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Yale | 04/08/2023 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Yale | 04/08/2023 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
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| Rutgers Diaspora | Glass Onyen: A Knives Out Mystery | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Maryland A | Maryland B+ | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Fan-tastic Negs and Where to Find Them | The Perfection of Wisdom in 8,000 Negs | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |