Question
Description acceptable. Avveroes critiqued an argument for God’s existence using this quality as failing the Aristotelian demand for a theological proof to be based in the natural world. For 10 points each:
[10h] Avicenna’s proof of the truthful moves by showing that something with this quality exists, and then that something with this quality would have all the properties of God.
ANSWER: being a necessary existent [or wājib al-wujūd; accept answers like depending on nothing else to exist, or depending only on itself to exist, or being something that must exist, or necessarily existing, accept equivalents]
[10m] Avicenna’s proof of the truthful is this kind of argument for God’s existence, which infers the existence of God from facts about the universe. These types of arguments often deal with causes.
ANSWER: cosmological argument
[10e] This Ash’arite thinker harshly critiqued several of Avicenna’s conclusions about God in The Incoherence of the Philosophers, which would in turn be attacked by Avveroes.
ANSWER: Al-Ghazali [or Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghazālī; accept Algazel or Algazelus]
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Summary
| 2024 ARCADIA at BU | 2024-12-06 | Y | 8 | 7.50 | 63% | 13% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Duke | 2024-12-06 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 5.00 | 50% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA Online | 2025-05-17 | Y | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 0% | 60% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Penn State | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 5.00 | 50% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 5.00 | 25% | 25% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 5 | 10.00 | 60% | 0% | 40% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 4.00 | 20% | 20% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 25% | 25% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 8.00 | 60% | 20% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Claremont | 2024-11-02 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
Data
| Chicago A | Purdue B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Illinois Blue | Notre Dame | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Chicago B | Purdue A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Illinois Orange | SIUE | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |