Packet 5: Bonus 8
This philosopher likened the four elements and four seasons to the four strings of the oud, which he legendarily played to temporarily cure a boy’s catatonic illness. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this 9th-century Peripatetic philosopher who wrote On First Philosophy and the optical treatise On Rays. He is often called “the father of Arab philosophy.”
ANSWER: al-Kindī [or Abū Yūsuf Yaʻqūb ibn ʼIsḥāq aṣ-Ṣabbāḥ al-Kindī]
[10e] al-Kindī also theorized a correspondence between an oud’s strings and these concepts. According to Hippocrates, an imbalance in these concepts caused individuals to take on different temperaments.
ANSWER: humors [or four humors]
[10h] This group expanded on al-Kindī’s theories by claiming that the intervals between the oud’s strings matched those between the elemental spheres. This secretive group of Basra-based philosophers produced a set of 52 encyclopedic epistles.
ANSWER: Brethren of Purity [or Brethren of Sincerity or Ikhwān al-Safā’]
<AM, Philosophy> | NAFTA-Packet-5
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43 | 14.19 | 100% | 30% | 12% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Copán Seethe | Polish Orthographers Posting Their Łs | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MEH |
| David Foster Gromit | It's something unpredictable/that in the end is right/please refrain from e-mailing my wife | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 NAFTA at Stanford | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 25% | 25% |
| 2026 NAFTA at UBC | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA Online | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 0% | 25% |
| 2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 12.00 | 100% | 20% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Maryland | 09/27/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 40% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Harvard | 10/04/2025 | ✓ | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Oxford | 10/11/2025 | ✓ | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 50% | 25% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Chicago | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 6 | 15.00 | 100% | 33% | 17% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Columbia | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 40% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Richmond | 12/20/2025 | ✓ | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |