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Donkey's Dilemma

CHARLES CURRAN Buridan was a French philosopher who in- vented a free-will dilemma. Imagine, he said, a donkey placed midway between a bale of hay and a bucket of water. It......

A Ldng Apart

MICHAEL BORRIE Edward l L. F. Salzman (Constable 35s) A new book from a scholar whose first work was published in 1902 is something of an event. Dr Salzman, the doyen of English......