Jean Buridan
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Jean Buridan was an influential 14th‑century French scholastic philosopher.
Iohannes Buridanus
14th-century manuscript of Buridan's Questions on Aristotle's De anima.
Buridan's ass
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Buridan's ass is an illustration of a paradox in philosophy in the conception of free will. It refers to a hypothetical situation wherein an ass that is equally hungry and thirsty is placed precisely
Jean Buridan
…concept of inertia and an important development in the history of medieval science. His name is most familiar through the thought experiment known as Buridan's ass, but the thought experiment does not appear in his extant writings. Buridan was born sometime before 1301, perhaps at or near the town of Béthune in…
Political cartoon c. 1900, showing the United States Congress as Buridan's ass (in the two hay piles version), hesitating between a Panama route or a Nicaragua route for an Atlantic–Pacific canal