https://freerepublic.com/tag/equalattraction/ en-us Sat, 29 May 2021 13:18:29 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3963429/posts Jean-Henri Casimir Fabre (1823-1915) was a fiercely independent thinker who had a slavish drive for scientific truth. He was what you’d call an autodidact – a self-educated man who picked his own path to becoming a physicist, a chemist, a botanist, and an etymologist. In a thinking man’s way, he questioned ideas like the paradox of Buridan’s Ass, a concept oft quoted in the schools of his day to illustrate the ironies of free will. One version of the paradox went like this: If you take a donkey that is equally starved and equally thirsty and sit him between water... Townhall.com https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3963429/posts#comment Sat, 29 May 2021 13:18:29 GMT