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A treatise named for this place preserves an argument based on the “indiscriminability” of pairs of eggs, as well as the “inactivity objection” that faced a position named for this place. A leader of this place opposed ideas of “natural justice” since a shipwrecked sailor would be a fool to not kill a weaker man clinging to a plank of wood. Augustine’s first work is a dialogue “against” a tradition named for this place that promoted reliance on pithanon, or the “probable,” in the face of acatalepsia. (10[1])Due to scholarchs (-5[1])like Arcesilaus (10[1])(“ar-sess-ih-LAY-us”) and Carneades, this (10[1])place names the more extreme (10[1])of the two (-5[1])main (10[1])traditions (10[1])of ancient (10[1])skepticism. (10[2])Justinian closed this place, (-5[1])to which a plucked (10[1])chicken (10[1]-5[1])was once brought (10[2])to (10[1])ridicule a definition of man (-5[1])as (-5[1])a “featherless biped.” (10[1])For 10 points, (10[1])name this (10[1])school in a grove outside Athens that was founded by Plato. (10[2])■END■ (10[5])

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