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A treatise named for this place preserves an argument based on the “indiscriminability” of pairs of eggs, as well as the “inactivity objection” that faced a position named for this place. A leader of this place opposed ideas of “natural justice” since a shipwrecked sailor would be a fool to not kill a weaker man clinging to a plank of wood. Augustine’s first work is a dialogue “against” a tradition named for this place that promoted reliance on pithanon, or the “probable,” in the face of acatalepsia. (10[1])Due to scholarchs (-5[1])like Arcesilaus (10[1])(“ar-sess-ih-LAY-us”) and Carneades, this (10[1])place names the more extreme (10[1])of the two (-5[1])main (10[1])traditions (10[1])of ancient (10[1])skepticism. (10[2])Justinian closed this place, (-5[1])to which a plucked (10[1])chicken (10[1]-5[1])was once brought (10[2])to (10[1])ridicule a definition of man (-5[1])as (-5[1])a “featherless biped.” (10[1])For 10 points, (10[1])name this (10[1])school in a grove outside Athens that was founded by Plato. (10[2])■END■ (10[5])

ANSWER: Academy [or Platonic Academy; or Akademía; accept New Academy or Third Academy or Old Academy; accept academic skepticism or Against the Academicians or Academica; prompt on the School of Athens until “Athens” is read] (The first sentence refers to Cicero’s Academica.)
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Jaik HavlickArizona StateToronto B8610
Andrew HannaPennVirginia89-5
Quentin MotGeorgia TechMichigan9110
Matt JacksonChicago ANorth Carolina A9410
Forrest WeintraubColumbia AWUSTL A9910
Tim MorrisonStanfordIndiana102-5
Cory SmithKentuckyCornell B10310
Anuttam RamjiBerkeley BVanderbilt10410
Aum MundheRutgersClaremont Colleges10610
Caleb KendrickMarylandNYU10710
Jared HeWaterlooTexas10710
Matt SchiavonePurdueChicago B111-5
Chris SimsNorthwesternToronto A11510
Raymond WangCornell AMinnesota A11610
Ishan JoshiOttawaColumbia B116-5
Nathaniel HullBerkeley ABrown11910
Ben SterlingYale BDuke11910
James McCurleyHarvardMcGill12010
Morgan BozemanMinnesota BTruman State125-5
Conor ThompsonIowa StateYale A126-5
Rasheeq AzadNorth Carolina BChicago C12910
Shiv SeshanChicago DSouth Carolina13210
Graham CopeFloridaWUSTL B13410
Fred GarveyTruman StateMinnesota B14510
Jack RadoColumbia BOttawa14510
Matthew SiffYale AIowa State14610
Justin WytmarIllinoisJohns Hopkins14610
Joseph ChambersVirginiaPenn14610
John MarvinChicago BPurdue14610
Danila KabotyanskiIndianaStanford14610