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Jean Buridan

Type Figure Region France Time c. 1300–1361 Also known as Jean Buridan、Johannes Buridanus

Jean Buridan (c. 1300 – after 1361) was a 14th-century scholastic philosopher and logician at the University of Paris, of the Ockhamist nominalist tr…

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  1. c. 1320–1328Paris · ParisStudied and taught in the arts faculty of the University of Paris, inheriting the Ockhamist nominalist and logical-analytic tradition, and began writing treatises on logic and physics.
  2. 1328–1340University of Paris · ParisFirst elected rector of the University of Paris in 1328 and again in 1340, holding a prominent position in scholastic circles and promoting the teaching of logic and natural philosophy.
  3. 1341–1358Paris · ParisIn the 1340s he continued lecturing in Paris on logic and commentaries on the Physics, developing natural-philosophical ideas such as the impetus theory, influencing later scholars such as Oresme.

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