Round 5: Tossup 21

This thinker praises tar water to begin a chain of reflections to claim that effects require active causes in his essay Siris. James Jurin responded to a work by this man in his essay Geometry no Friend to Infidelity. This thinker critiqued a thinker’s infinitesimals in works like De Motu and his “A Discourse Addressed to an Infidel Mathematician,” titled The (*) Analyst. This thinker claimed that unperceived matter is incoherent through his “master argument.” The second of two title characters argues that “to be is to be perceived” in this man’s essay Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous. For 10 points, what Irish bishop and philosopher is the namesake of a California university? ■END■

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