donkey who is placed precisely midway between two sources of food and/or water.' name='description'> Buridan's ass - definition and meaning

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  • proper noun The hypothetical donkey who is placed precisely midway between two sources of food and/or water.
  • noun countable A person or organization who doesn't make a choice.
  • noun uncountable Collectively, people who don't make a choice.

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After the fourteenth-century French philosopher Jean Buridan, whose philosophy of moral determinism it satirises.

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