Buridan's Ass
See also: Buridan's ass
English
Proper noun
Buridan's Ass
- Alternative spelling of Buridan's ass (“the hypothetical donkey who is the subject of a philosophical paradox concerning choices of equal value”)
- 1985, Jean Buridan, Peter King, Jean Buridan's Logic, Springer, →ISBN, page 3:
- Buridan is best-known to philosophers for the example of "Buridan's Ass," starving to death between two equidistant and equally tempting bales of hay, [...]
- 2003 August 31, Tony Dermody <tdermody@iol.NODAMNJUNK.ie>, “Re: A Few Questions”, in alt.atheism.moderated, Usenet, message-ID <2lpcvpdh3zwc$.1mk81eq1qmfo3$.dlg@40tude.net>:
- They remain like Buridan's Ass, in a kind of frozen indecisiveness, between total freedom and total regulation.
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