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a111: 9 results for "buridan", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=buridan
asciilifeform: !#s buridan
mircea_popescu: should have written her a manual on buridan's ass.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-15 16:23 mircea_popescu: btw, you know the famous case of buridan's ass yes ?
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: devil's advocate: can attempt to resist where-to-go paradox without making reference to authority if you admit that agent's free will can also include (while still counting as free will) "unconscious heuristics" ("water is priority"; but yes this is missing the point, i guess) / "random behaviour" (buridan would disagree that this is "free will", i guess)
mircea_popescu: btw, you know the famous case of buridan's ass yes ? ☟︎
Framedragger: one $sadthing re aristotle is that he did all his logic in verbal syllogisms. which is ~fine, but omg did predicate symbol notation help... and it took a long while. same with middle age logic (buridan et al, not an expert tho). guess knowing lating well helps a lot, tho :/
mircea_popescu: poor mod6 sounds exactly like buridan's ass :D
mircea_popescu: jurov lol those are a lot like buridan's ass!
asciilifeform: all those things that confounded the novice, like the piles of hay confounded buridan's donkey - aren't 'choices' at all, after all.
mircea_popescu: i may end like buridan's ass