Bonus
This thinker may have met with a group of “naked wise men” or gymno·sophists during an expedition to India with Alexander the Great. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this Ancient Greek thinker, whose versions of adiáphora (“AY-dee-AFF-uh-ruh”), astáthmēta (“AY-stath-MEE-tuh”), and anepíkrita (“AY-neh-PIK-rit-uh”) may have been inspired by those gymnosophists. His school of thought was revived in the Renaissance due to the rediscovery of the writings of Sextus Empiricus.
ANSWER: Pyrrho of Elis
[10e] Pyrrhonists subscribe to this philosophical stance: the belief that certainty about truth or knowledge is unattainable.
ANSWER: skepticism [accept being a skeptic]
[10h] Some scholars have hypothesized that the gymnosophists Pyrrho encountered belonged to this nāstika school of radical Indian skepticism that promoted agnosticism and the view that knowledge is impossible. Sañjaya Belatthi·putta was a proponent of this school.
ANSWER: Ajñāna (“ug-N’YAH-nuh”)
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| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
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| North Carolina A | Cornell A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
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| 2025 ACF Nationals | Yes | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |