Description acceptable. Kant claimed that people making these arguments cannot sincerely believe them in an essay “On the Miscarriage of All Philosophical Trials in [them].” In a dialogue, Maximus and Themistius refute arguments of this type made by rationaux (“rah-see-oh-NO”) such as Jean Le Clerc and Isaac Jacquelot. A posteriori reasons support Zoroaster’s arguments of this type more than those of Melissus, according to Clarification on the Manicheans. Pierre Bayle argued that we should abandon these arguments, which are contrasted with (*) defenses, and presuppose a first principle. Kant theorized a central concept’s “radical” form in one of these arguments from Religion Within the Bounds of Reason Alone. For 10 points, Leibniz’s claim that we live in the best of all possible worlds is what sort of argument that explains why God allows bad things? ■END■
| 2025 Chicago Open | 2025-08-09 | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 126.58 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stephen Walsh | Do re mi fa serving negs | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 2k5, RNBQKBNR b Q - 99 66 | 92 | -5 |
| Jordan Brownstein | I worship the Pyramid (abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard) | BHSU B | 99 | -5 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | The Met on Laserdisc. Bravo! | Broken Socal Scene | 104 | -5 |
| Dylan Minarik | The RAND Coöperation | It's not X, but... defenders | 110 | 10 |
| Joel Miles | "real numbers are uncountable" factoid actually just statistical error. diagonal georg | Big is moving to Evanston! | 110 | -5 |
| Omkar Marathe | Halifax Shipping Services | Li Bai Chocolate Mushussu Pacha Latte | 113 | 10 |
| Tracy Mirkin | Floridovician | Woke Michael Du be like "I'm a genders player" | 120 | 10 |
| Iain Carpenter | Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart | Enjoying the Hole Experience | 125 | 10 |
| Andrew Wang | BHSU X | Will They Ever Finish Bruckner’s Ninth Boulevard? | 125 | 10 |
| Henry Atkins | No, explaining that your buzz came from watching an isekai is not "Proustian" | "Real quiz bowl" only consists of the ACF academic pyramidal scene and the late 2010s NAQT scene. | 129 | 10 |
| Matt Bollinger | BHSU B | I worship the Pyramid (abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard) | 132 | 10 |
| Eric Bobrow | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 2k5, RNBQKBNR b Q - 99 66 | Do re mi fa serving negs | 133 | 10 |
| Anderson Wang | One Microscopic Pog in His Chat-astrophic Plan | Mumbo Jumbo Will Labubu | 133 | 10 |
| Aseem Keyal | Broken Socal Scene | The Met on Laserdisc. Bravo! | 133 | 10 |
| Aaron Zhou | Please sir, may I have some morb? | The True Dharma Eye of the Juan Soto School | 133 | 10 |
| Lou Leere | Big is moving to Evanston! | "real numbers are uncountable" factoid actually just statistical error. diagonal georg | 133 | 10 |