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Buridan's ass
A common variant of the paradox substitutes two identical piles of hay for the hay and water; the ass, unable to choose between the two, dies of hunger. ... be likened to the position of the ass, ...
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TWO BUNDLES OF HAY. Carver (R.H.F.) The Protean Ass. The Metamorphoses of Apuleius from Antiquity to the Renaissance. Pp. xvi + 545. Oxford: Oxford ...
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Jan 21, 1986 ... philosopher Jean Buridan, states that an ass placed equidistant between two bales of hay must starve to death because it has no reason to ...
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On Buridan's Ass ... that died of hunger, incapable of making choice between two equal bundles of hay. .... figure but a vacillation between two extreme positions, ...
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2. To fiction; as- "Lady Macbeth is the Clytemnestra of the modem drama." 3. To anecdote, fable, etc.; as- "Like the ass between two bundles of hay." ...
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waverer, ass between two bundles of hay; shuttlecock, butterfly; wimp; doughface [U.S.]. [Verbs] be irresolute; hang in suspense, keep in suspense; leave "ad ...
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... pliancy (softness); weakness; timidity; cowardice; half measures., waverer, ass between two bundles of hay; shuttlecock, butterfly; wimp; doughface [U.S.].
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You are like Buridan's ass. That wretched creature starved between two bundles of hay, because he could not make up his mind which bundle to turn to first.
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The comparison of the will unable to act between two equally balanced motives to an ass dying of hunger between two equal and equidistant bundles of hay is ...
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The comparison of the will unable to act between two equally balanced motives to a hungry ass unable to eat between two equal and equidistant bundles of hay ...
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