Packet 10: Bonus 17
In The Immortality of the Soul, Henry More wrote that God interacts with matter through an emanatory substance called the “Spirit of [this entity].” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this entity that is described as “plastic” in the name of Ralph Cudworth’s principle concerning how God interacts with material objects.
ANSWER: nature [accept Spirit of Nature or Physis; accept plastic nature]
[10m] Cudworth, More, and More’s student Anne Conway were all part of this seventeenth-century group of philosophers based in a namesake English city.
ANSWER: Cambridge Platonists [or Cambridge Platonism]
[10e] Conway posited “middle nature” to explain how God communicates with matter made of “spirit particles,” which many scholars believe to have inspired this German philosopher’s idea of monads.
ANSWER: Gottfried Leibniz [or Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz]
<AM, Philosophy> | NAFTA-Packet-10
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | 16.52 | 100% | 61% | 4% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ana Pauker? I hardly know her! | Tennessee A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Georgia Tech 𓂈𓆉𓃡 | The Umayyad Caliphate be like REPEAL NAPHTHA | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 NAFTA at Stanford | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA Online | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| 2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✕ | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Maryland | 09/27/2025 | ✕ | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Harvard | 10/04/2025 | ✕ | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Oxford | 10/11/2025 | ✓ | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Chicago | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 6 | 18.33 | 100% | 67% | 17% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Columbia | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |