biography
pronunciation:
[booreedã]
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1300–c.1358)
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| biography:
| Scholastic philosopher, probably born in Béthune, N France. He studied under William of Ockham and taught in Paris, publishing works on mechanics, optics, and logic. He gave his name to the famous problem of decision-making called Buridan's ass, where an ass faced with two equidistant and equally desirable bales of hay starves to death because there are no grounds for preferring to go to one bale rather than the other. |
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