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Juhana Toivanen has argued that the epistemological understanding of this thought experiment by thinkers such as Vital du Four represents a break from the ontological interpretation of Jean de La Rochelle. Ambiguities in the interpretation of this thought experiment arose from how Dominicus Gundissalinus (“goon-dee-sah-LEE-noos”) and Avendauth (“ah-ven-DOWTH”) used different phrases to render the same word in the first Latin translation. This thought experiment begins by asking the reader to imagine that they were created in a “single stroke, fully (10[1])developed (10[1])and perfectly formed” (10[3])in its presentation at the end of the first chapter of a 12th-century book (10[1])translated (10[1])as (10[1])De Anima (“day AH-nee-mah”). A figure (10[1]-5[1])whose limbs cannot touch (10[1])each (10[1])other (10[4])is used (10[1])to prove the existence (10[1])of the soul in, for 10 points, what thought experiment about a person without sensory (10[1])experience, proposed by Avicenna? (10[1]-5[1])■END■ (10[1])

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