Buridan's Ass/Traditional/Also presented as

Buridan's Ass: Also presented as

The paradox of Buridan's ass can be presented in various forms, for example:

an ass equidistant between two buckets of water, and who dies of thirst
the grain can be replaced by hay

and so on.


Sources

  • 2014: Christopher Clapham and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (5th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Buridan's ass
  • 2021: Richard Earl and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (6th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Buridan's ass
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