Question
This thinker was influenced by Anne Conway’s “spirit particles” to write a book that calls perception mechanically inexplicable, and compares a thinking machine to the inside of a mill. This thinker’s law states that two objects that share all their properties cannot be distinct; that law is also called the identity of indiscernibles. This thinker described “windowless” particles in the book Monadology (“moh-NAH-daw-logy”). Voltaire satirized this thinker as the optimistic Dr. Pangloss in Candide (“can-DEED”) due to his claim that “we live in the best of all possible worlds.” For 10 points, the use of dx (“dee-ex”) in derivative notation was developed by what German thinker, who discovered calculus independently of Newton? ■END■
ANSWER: Gottfried Leibniz (“LYB-nits”) [accept Leibniz’s Law]
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Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Matthew Wang | UBC B | UBC A | 28 | 10 |
Summary
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State | fall | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 57.00 |
2024 ACF Fall at Washington | fall | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 28.00 |
2024 ACF Fall at Georgia | fall | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 59.00 |
2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina | fall | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 67% | 83.33 |
2024 ACF Fall at Illinois | fall | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 74.20 |