Buridan's Ass

See also: Buridan's ass

English

Proper noun

Buridan's Ass

  1. 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[1] (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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