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en-wikipedia-org-6397		Buridan's ass - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	2826	337	71	Although the illustration is named after Buridan, philosophers have discussed the concept before him, notably Aristotle, who used the example of a man equally hungry and thirsty,[2] and Al-Ghazali, who used a man faced with the choice of equally good dates.[3] The 12th-century Persian scholar and philosopher al-Ghazali discusses the application of this paradox to human decision making, asking whether it is possible to make a choice between equally good courses without grounds for preference.[2] He takes the attitude that free will can break the stalemate. In other words, it is entirely rational to recognize that both choices are equally good and arbitrarily (randomly) pick one instead of starving; although the decision that they are sufficiently the same is also subject to Buridan's ass. "Choice Without Preference: A Study of the History and of the Logic of the Problem of 'Buridan's Ass'".	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6397.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6397.txt