"Buridan's Ass" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1985, Jean Buridan, Peter King, Jean Buridan's Logic, Springer, page 3",
          "text": "Buridan is best-known to philosophers for the example of \"Buridan's Ass,\" starving to death between two equidistant and equally tempting bales of hay, [...]",
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          "ref": "2003 August 31, Tony Dermody <tdermody@iol.NODAMNJUNK.ie>, “Re: A Few Questions”, in alt.atheism.moderated (Usenet), message-ID <2lpcvpdh3zwc$.1mk81eq1qmfo3$.dlg@40tude.net>",
          "text": "They remain like Buridan's Ass, in a kind of frozen indecisiveness, between total freedom and total regulation.",
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