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This book argues that certain “material falsities” give rise to ideas with objective reality but no corresponding formal reality. In a letter, this book’s author defended one of its conclusions by appealing to three types of “primitive notions” and a Scholastic idea of heaviness. An (10[1])objection by Pierre Gassendi, (10[1])included in a set of “objections and replies” (10[1])appended to this book, (10[1])critiques how this book compares a chiliagon and a myriagon to distinguish imagination and pure intellect. Elisabeth of Bohemia pressed this book’s (10[1])author on how its concepts of extended substance and (10[1])thinking substance interact. (10[1])This book claims that “clear and distinct” ideas (-5[1])allowed its author to comprehend a piece of wax. (10[1])For 10 points, the evil demon appears in (-5[1])what book by René Descartes that follows Discourse on Method? (0[2]) (10[2])■END■

ANSWER: Meditations on First Philosophy [or Meditationes de Prima Philosophia; accept René Descartes’s Meditations or equivalents; prompt on Meditations by asking “by what author?”]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Michael WuSouthampton BDurham A4410
Seraphina CharlotteCambridge ASouthampton A4810
Omer KeskinOxford ACambridge D5610
Benjamin WatsonOxford BBristol B6010
Linus LuuCambridge BManchester8210
Ian McDowellCambridge CImperial A9110
Albert NyangLSE AWarwick B9410
Gavin MarkoffVanderbiltBristol A102-5
Sophie HughesDurham BWarwick A11110
Faiz AhmedBirminghamLSE B119-5
Tom HainesDurham ASouthampton A1290
Cormac StephensonSouthampton ADurham A1290
Ryan SharpeLSE BBirmingham13010
Ted WarnerBristol AVanderbilt13010