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Buridan’s ass unable to decide between two haystacks, he would starve to death. [Fr. Philos.: Brewer Dictionary, 154] See : Indecision How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Due to the success of Thomist theology during the fifteenth century, Jean Buridan's nominalist definition of human freedom as being rooted in the aptitude to felicity seemingly disappeared from the public discourse, together with the proliferation of his works in Italy (David Lines). It's worth mentioning that by attacking the USA so perfidiously, Japan exercised another stratagem--that of Buridan's ass. Buridan's "Theory of Impetus" and Oreseme's diagrammatic presentations of mathematical results were seen by Duhem as anticipations of the Law of Inertia and Cartesian analytic geometry. |
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