Packet 1: Tossup 20

A dualist from this modern country proposed that if we grant that animals experience sense perceptions, they must also have reason in a commentary on De Anima titled for his parents. A thinker from this country names the idea that God has “middle (10[1])knowledge” of (10[1])counterfactuals (10[1])regarding human action. (10[1])A Second Scholastic (10[1])thinker from this country (10[1])summarized all metaphysical (10[1])thought up to his time in Metaphysical Disputations. (10[6])At a university (10[2])in this (10[1])country, scholars developed a subjective theory of value that is sometimes (10[1])cited as anticipating the Austrian School of Economics. An archbishop born (10[1])in this modern country was called “the last scholar of the ancient world” for quoting thousands of word usages to write his (10[1])encyclopedic Etymologies. (10[1]-5[1])For 10 points, name this country where Jesuit philosophers studied at the University of Salamanca. (10[1])■END■ (10[3])

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