Arabic - 2024 ACF Winter at UBC

Question

Edward Pococke, Jr. published a Latin translation of a novel in this language that he titled Philosophus Autodidactus. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this language that Ibn Tufayl used to write a novel about Hayy ibn Yaqzan (“yak-ZAN”), whose name was taken from an Ibn Sina book also written in this language.

ANSWER: Arabic [or al-‘arabiyyah; accept Classical Arabic or al-Fuṣḥā or al-ʻArabīyah al-Fuṣḥā]

[10h] Hayy ibn Yaqzan is raised by a gazelle in one of these locations. Gaunilo replied to St. Anselm’s ontological argument in In Behalf of the Fool by considering one of these locations.

ANSWER: islands [accept Lost Island]

[10m] Hayy ibn Yaqzan’s isolation was partly inspired by a thought experiment created by Ibn Sina, which argues for the soul’s existence by imagining a man in this state who is without any sense perception.

ANSWER: floating [accept floating man or flying man or man suspended in air]

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Summary


2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley	2024-11-16	Y	3	23.33	100%	33%	100%
2024 ACF Winter at Clemson	2024-11-16	Y	8	13.75	75%	38%	25%
2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh	2024-11-16	Y	8	13.75	75%	38%	25%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	Y	9	24.44	100%	78%	67%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	Y	7	15.71	100%	14%	43%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	8	15.00	100%	38%	13%
2024 ACF Winter at UBC	2024-11-16	Y	3	30.00	100%	100%	100%
2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida	2024-11-16	Y	5	18.00	100%	40%	40%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	Y	11	20.00	73%	46%	82%
2024 ACF Winter at Brandeis	2024-11-16	Y	10	14.00	90%	40%	10%

Data


SFU	UBC A	10	10	10	30
UW B	UBC B	10	10	10	30
Alberta	UW A	10	10	10	30