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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 objection by Pierre Gassendi, included in a set of “objections and replies” appended to this book, critiques how this book compares a chiliagon and a myriagon to distinguish imagination and pure intellect. Elisabeth of Bohemia (10[1])pressed this book’s author on how its concepts of (10[1])extended substance and thinking substance interact. This book claims that “clear and distinct” ideas allowed its author to comprehend a piece of wax. For 10 points, the evil demon appears in what book (-5[1])by René Descartes that follows Discourse on Method? (10[2]0[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
Leo LawUF AFlorida Tech A7910
Graham CopeUF BUF F8810
Samuel StellaFlorida State University AUF E121-5
Aryan PathakUF EFlorida State University A13010
Alexander NicholsUCF BFlorida Tech B13010
Nicholas NguyenUF DUF C1300
Eve MarambaUF CUF D1300