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Ideas of Jean Buridan, by Text
[French, 1298 - 1360, Probably born at Bethune, France.]
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1403
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A rational donkey would starve to death between two totally identical piles of hay [PG]
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1344
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Questions on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics
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I.28c
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p.497
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Why can't we deduce secondary qualities from primary ones, if they cause them?
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1346
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Questions on Aristotle's Physics
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I.10, f. 13vb
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p.696
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16793
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A thing is (less properly) the same over time if each part is succeeded by another
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I.15 f. 18vb
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p.23
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16577
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Induction is not demonstration, because not all of the instances can be observed
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I.15 f. 18vb
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p.23
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16576
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Science is based on induction, for general truths about fire, rhubarb and magnets
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I.8 f. 11va
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p.295
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16678
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Without magnitude a thing would retain its parts, but they would have no location
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