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Jean Buridan

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Jean Buridan , d. c.1358, French scholastic philosopher. Rector of the Univ. of Paris, he was a follower of William of Occam and a nominalist. Buridan promoted the theory of impetus, arguing that a projectile continues in motion not, as Aristotle held, because it is supported by the surrounding air, but because of the force transmitted to it by the object that launched it. Buridan's theory of the will was that choice is determined by the greater good and that the freedom a person possesses is the power to suspend choice and reconsider motives for action. Traditionally but almost certainly erroneously... Read more
Jean Buridan
...prefigured modern developments in cinematics. In logic he explicated the doctrines of Aristotle and Peter of Spain ( 1210–77). His works include Summula de dialecta (1487) and Consequentie (1493). Jean Buridan Jean Buridan Jean Buridan Read more
Buridan's ass
Buridan's ass n. A problem of decision making typified by a hungry ass standing between two equidistant and equally attractive bales of hay who starves to death because reason provides no grounds for choosing one rather than the other. See also approach-approach conflict .[Named after the French scholastic philosopher ... Read more

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