Talk:Jean Buridan

message: It is clear that Buridan was skeptical in method, as the scholastic disputato requires skepticism.   Buridan is widely recognized as a master of scholasticism and its methods, which was the origin of the problem of the ass.   Though I doubt he was a religious skeptic, he was skeptical about elements of dogma and practices because that is part of his method.  --Buridan 15:41, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Skeptical Methods

message: I think that it must not be stated in the encyclopedia such a description that diverge from the modern physical knowledge. In classical physics there is no mention of cause at all: it is said that momentum and motion are just connected to eash other, such that they always come together. But in quantum mechanics the operator of momentum is gradient of the wave function; and according to the Schroedinger equation, the spatial motion is caused by the gradient. So actually it comes that momentum is causing motion; and Buridan said almost the same: that impetus is causing motion. I don't know any branch of physics where it would be stated that momentum is caused by motion, except the case of poorly understood beginner's textbook. Fir-tree 16:38, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sec. 1.1. "Impetus theory": Momentum being caused by motion? WRONG! 

message: The phrase "religious scepticism" seems to be devoid of a definite meaning in this context. Because several other users made the same claim on this talk page, I removed it from the article. In response to Buridan's claim above that Scholasticism was sceptical, I think that scepticism must in this context be use be used only in its philosophical sense. This sense includes scepticism about whether true knowledge can ever be had or whether anything can be proved. David Hume is perfect example of the philosophical sceptic. Buridan does not share Hume's scepticism in any way that I can see. Srnec 23:58, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Religious scepticism

message: I have removed the claim that Buridan was taught by William of Ockham.  Although there is great similarity between their mature views, Ockham was not Buridan's teacher for the simple reason that Ockham never taught at the University of Paris.  Ockham's philosophical career was spent at Oxford and the Franciscan house in London.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.74.116.234 (talk) 20:46, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  William of Ockham 

message: The article claims that "A posthumous campaign by Ockhamists succeeded in having Buridan's writings placed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum from 1474-1481." However, in Index Librorum Prohibitorum it is stated that "The first list of the kind was not published in Rome, but in Roman Catholic Netherlands (1529)". So, according to the later, the index didn't exist in the 15th century. Top.Squark (talk) 18:42, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contradiction with [[Index Librorum Prohibitorum]] 

message: The article on Petrarch, who claimed to have climbed the 2,000+m. of Mt Ventoux and thus to be among the first recreational hikers, reports: "However, the nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt noted that Jean Buridan had climbed the same mountain [Mt. Ventoux] a few years before". 
--174.7.25.37 (talk) 16:01, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Buridan, the Hiker? 

message: Even a lot of Calais and abodes was English and Dutch speaking up until WW2  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.5.91.155 (talk) 17:32, 5 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Burdian was not French. Atrois was annexed into France much later. 

message: Matter  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 197.231.239.219 (talk) 17:47, 14 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chemistry 

message: It’s just to generally describe his philosophy, general overviews of his logix,metaphysics and reception by other philosophers? Krisb121 (talk) 11:36, 24 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can we add a “philosophy” section