This hypothetical was first proposed in a commentary on Aristotle's On the Heavens and was discussed more fully in its formulator's Quaestiones Physicorum and Quaestiones in Praedicamenta.  
This hypothetical was first proposed in a commentary on Aristotle's On the Heavens and was discussed more fully in its formulator's Quaestiones Physicorum and Quaestiones in Praedicamenta.  It leads to the conclusion that if you assume a symmetry of information and a symmetry of preference between two items, then a choice must be made at random.  As commonly told, two absolutely equal bales of hay are placed before a donkey whereupon it starves to death, unable to choose between the two.  FTP, name this philosophical dilemma, named for the French scholastic and student of William of Occam who proposed it.
This hypothetical was first proposed in a commentary on Aristotle's On the Heavens and was discussed more fully in its formulator's Quaestiones Physicorum and Quaestiones in Praedicamenta.  
Buridan's Ass (accept Buridan's Dog)