Packet 5: Bonus 14
This thinker argued for the immateriality of the soul by claiming that a floating man with no sensory experiences would still be self-aware. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this thinker whose contributions to medicine include The Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine. This Arabic philosopher claimed that God is the necessary existent and all contingent beings exist through another.
ANSWER: Avicenna [or ibn Sina]
[10e] Avicenna challenged this thinker through his floating man argument and by distinguishing between existence and essence. This Greek philosopher wrote Metaphysics and Nicomachaean Ethics.
ANSWER: Aristotle of Stagira [or Aristoteles]
[10h] This work promotes occasionalism by criticizing Avicenna’s metaphysical and psychological arguments. This text by al-Ghazali denounces the metaphysical claims of other Arabic thinkers.
ANSWER: The Incoherence of the Philosophers [or Tahāfut al-Falāsifa’; prompt on the Incoherence or the Tahāfut]
<Philosophy, Spencer Manning> | VAULT II Packet 05
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 38 | 17.89 | 87% | 61% | 32% |
Conversion
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VAULT II at Georgia Tech | 2026-01-24 | ✕ | 6 | 15.00 | 83% | 50% | 17% |
| Triangle Cup | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| VAULT II at Eden Prairie HS | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 3 | 16.67 | 67% | 67% | 33% |
| VAULT II at McGill | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 50% | 25% |
| VAULT II at UCSB | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 5 | 22.00 | 100% | 60% | 60% |
| VAULT II Northern UK | 2026-04-24 | ✓ | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| VAULT II Southern UK | 2026-04-24 | ✓ | 4 | 10.00 | 50% | 50% | 0% |
| VAULT II at Harvard | 2026-04-30 | ✓ | 4 | 15.00 | 50% | 50% | 50% |
| VAULT II at MINT | 2026-06-19 | ✓ | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 60% | 0% |
| VAULT II Stanford Online | 2026-07-17 | ✓ | 8 | 23.75 | 100% | 75% | 63% |