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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. ... The argument is that, like the starving...
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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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TWO BUNDLES OF HAY. Carver (R.H.F.) The ... di¶erence, however, between her book and Carver's is like that between a guidebook and a reference library.
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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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On Buridan's Ass ... equal stature, the mind can be suspended between them like the 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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Jan 21, 1986 ... are continuous, and the Uncertainty Principle, like random noise, ... Because real asses are not observed to starve to death when placed between two bales of hay, philosophers have viewed Buridan's Ass as a paradox, ...
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... timidity; cowardice; half measures., waverer, ass between two bundles of hay; ... be thrown off one's balance, stagger like a drunken man; be afraid; let "I dare ...
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I have been studying the concept of middle knowledge and I would like to know your ... was caught equidistant between two equally appetizing bundles of hay. The debate was whether the ass, lacking free will, would starve to death, having no ...
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The Pine Caterpillar is even more sheep-like, not from foolishness, but from ..... Ass, [note 2] that famous Donkey who, when placed between two bundles of hay, ... The Ass, who is no more foolish than any one else, would reply to the logical ...
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waverer, ass between two bundles of hay; shuttlecock, butterfly; wimp; ... be thrown off one's balance, stagger like a drunken man; be afraid [more]; let "I dare not" ...
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