Buridan's Ass/Traditional
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Paradox
An ass standing equidistant between two equal heaps of grain of identical quality will starve to death.
This is supposedly because there is no grounds for preferring one heap to the other.
Sources
- 1989: Ephraim J. Borowski and Jonathan M. Borwein: Dictionary of Mathematics ... (previous) ... (next): Buridan's ass