Jean Buridan (French: [byʁidɑ̃]; Latin: Johannes Buridanus; c. 1301 – c. 1359/62) was an influential 14th‑century French philosopher. Buridan taught in...

French philosopher Jean Buridan, whose philosophy of moral determinism it satirizes. Although the illustration is named after Buridan, philosophers have...

concept of Aristotle's modal syllogism model. The French philosopher Jean Buridan (c. 1300 – 1361), whom some consider the foremost logician of the later...

14th century, Peter Olivi and Jean Buridan read and refined the work of Philoponus, and possibly that of Ibn Sīnā. Buridan, who in about 1350 was made rector...

gravity as an attractive force. In the 14th century, European philosophers Jean Buridan and Albert of Saxony—who were influenced by certain Islamic scholars—developed...

Buridan's Bridge (also known as Sophism 17) is described by Jean Buridan, one of the most famous and influential philosophers of the Late Middle Ages,...

role by transporting goods and making them available to the public. Jean Buridan (French: [byʁidɑ̃]; Latin Johannes Buridanus; c. 1300 – after 1358) was...

philosopher Jean Buridan by analogy with the Barcan formula and the converse Barcan formula introduced as axioms by Ruth Barcan Marcus. The Buridan formula...

Although a range of Christian clerics and scholars from Isidore and Bede to Jean Buridan and Nicole Oresme maintained the spirit of rational inquiry, Western...

century, before it was later established in Western scientific thought by Jean Buridan in the 14th century. It is the intellectual precursor to the concepts...

14th century, Jean Buridan rejected the notion that a motion-generating property, which he named impetus, dissipated spontaneously. Buridan's position was...

logic, and were studied by medieval scholars such as Peter Abelard and Jean Buridan. Aristotle's influence on logic continued well into the 19th century...

probably climbed in prehistoric times, the first recorded ascent was by Jean Buridan, who, on his way to the papal court in Avignon before the year 1334,...

astrotheology, tracing it from Aristotle through to Thomas Aquinas, Jean Buridan, and William of Ockham. The word astrotheology, hyphenated as astro-theology...

Mersenne, Bernard Bolzano, Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Nicole Oresme, Jean Buridan, Robert Grosseteste, Christopher Clavius, Nicolas Steno, Athanasius Kircher...

thinkers including Jean Buridan (1330-1358), Machiavelli (1469-1527) and Cornelius Agrippa (1486-1535). The philosopher Jean Buridan (1300-1358) proposed...

Brochard Jean-Marie Brohm Fabienne Brugère Claude Brunet Léon Brunschvicg Christine Buci-Glucksmann Claude Buffier Jean Buridan Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis...

Middle Ages, reaching a high point in the mid-fourteenth century, with Jean Buridan. The period between the fourteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth...

Jewish philosopher Ibn Kammuna, and the medieval Christian philosophers Jean Buridan and Albert of Saxony. Abu'l-Barakāt, famed as Awḥad al-Zamān (Unique...

disproven by Lynn Thorndike in 1943.: 69–74  Mount Ventoux was climbed by Jean Buridan, on his way to the papal court in Avignon before the year 1334, "in order...

Ockham wrote down the words that would result by reading the laws out. Jean Buridan, in his Summulae de Dialectica, also describes rules of conversion that...

times. There is even a slightly older written account of an ascent by Jean Buridan, who, on his way to the papal court in Avignon before the year 1334,...

[namely, that a force applied continuously produces acceleration]." Jean Buridan and Albert of Saxony later referred to Abu'l-Barakat in explaining that...

works when arguing that Aristotelian physics was flawed. In the 1300s Jean Buridan, a teacher in the faculty of arts at the University of Paris, developed...

Vitry (St) Jan Kanty/John Cantius, (1390–1473) Jan Standonck Jean Buridan, (c. 1295–1363) Jean de la Rochelle Jerome of Prague Joachim of Flora Jocelin,...

philosopher who studied with Albert of Saxony and Nicole Oresme under Jean Buridan. He was Magister at the University of Paris as well as at the University...

writers such as Ibn Sina and al-Baghdaadi, the 14th-century French priest Jean Buridan developed the theory of impetus, which later developed into the modern...

1288–1348). Franciscan. Scholastic. Nominalist, creator of Ockham's razor. Jean Buridan (c. 1300–1358). Nominalist. John Wycliffe (c. 1320–1384). Nicole Oresme...

Muqaddimah. Near the Renaissance, which began around the 14th century, Jean Buridan and Nicole Oresme wrote on money. In the 15th century St. Atonine of...

insolubilia continued throughout the fourteenth century, especially by Jean Buridan. The medieval insolubilia literature seems to treat these paradoxes as...