Plato's problem is the term given by Noam Chomsky to "the problem of explaining how we can know so much" given our limited experience. Chomsky believes...
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authored by Plato around 375 BC, concerning justice (δικαιοσύνη), the order and character of the just city-state, and the just man. It is Plato's best-known...
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Polanyi's paradox (section Plato's Problem)
cooks are, by contrast, currently secure. Plato's Problem is the term given by Noam Chomsky to "the problem of explaining how we can know so much" given...
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Plato himself. Along with his teacher Socrates, and Aristotle, his student, Plato is a central figure in the history of Western philosophy. Plato's entire...
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Theory of forms (redirect from Plato's ontology)
Nominalism Plotinus Problem of universals Substantial form Platonic solid Plato's unwritten doctrines, for debates over Forms and Plato's higher, esoteric...
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the end of the film standing near Plato's grave. On May 6, 2010, two days before the eleventh anniversary of Plato's death, her son Tyler committed suicide...
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philosophical thought in Plato's dialogues from his early years to his middle and later years, the most common modern view is that Plato's dialogues contain...
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Chomsky calls "Plato's Problem". He outlined this philosophical approach in the first chapter of the Knowledge of Language in 1986. Plato's Problem traces back...
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Parmenides (dialogue) (redirect from Plato's Parmenides)
Παρμενίδης) is one of the dialogues of Plato. It is widely considered to be one of the most challenging and enigmatic of Plato's dialogues. The Parmenides purports...
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1990 Landauer, Thomas K.; Dumais, Susan T. (1997). "A solution to Plato's problem: The latent semantic analysis theory of acquisition, induction, and...
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Universal Grammar. This poses serious issues from the perspectives of the Plato's problem and the poverty of the stimulus. It wrongly rules in structures that...
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Laws (dialogue) (redirect from Plato's Laws)
is noteworthy as Plato's only undisputed dialogue not to feature Socrates. Athenian Stranger Cleinias Megillus Unlike most of Plato's dialogues, Socrates...
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Plato was the first known person in the history of western philosophy to believe that the soul was both the source of life and the mind. In Plato's dialogues...
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Platonic Academy (redirect from Plato's Academy)
variously known as Plato's Academy, the Platonic Academy, and the Academic School,[citation needed] was founded at Athens by Plato circa 387 BC. Aristotle...
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their inspiration from PLATO's early games. As one example, Castle Wolfenstein by PLATO alum Silas Warner was inspired by PLATO's dungeon games (see below)...
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Socrates (section Sources and the Socratic problem)
distinction between the Socratic Socrates of Plato's earlier works and the Platonic Socrates of Plato's later writings, although the boundary between...
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Gutenberg has English translations of Plato's Apology of Socrates: Translated by Benjamin Jowett, 1891 Bundled with Plato's Crito and Phaedo, translated by...
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critiques of Plato's realism was that of Diogenes of Sinope, who said "I've seen Plato's cups and table, but not his cupness and tableness." Plato's student...
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Atlantis (section Plato's dialogues)
misinterpreted Plato's narrative as historical tradition, most famously Ignatius L. Donnelly in his Atlantis: The Antediluvian World. Plato's vague indications...
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Plato's number is a number enigmatically referred to by Plato in his dialogue the Republic (8.546b). The text is notoriously difficult to understand and...
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perhaps Plato was born on Aegina, but none of this enables a precise dating of Ariston's death (or Plato's birth)". Aegina is regarded as Plato's place...
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Phaedo (redirect from Plato's Phaedo)
Forms in Plato's Phaedo." Hermathena, 169: 57-68. Sedley, David. 1995. "The Dramatis Personae of Plato's Phaedo." [In] Philosophical Dialogues: Plato, Hume...
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Meno (redirect from Plato's Meno)
"Introduction". Plato's Meno in Focus. Psychology Press. ISBN 978-0-415-00297-4. Retrieved 12 March 2023. Klein, Jacob. 1965. A Commentary on Plato's Meno. Chapel...
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Euthyphro dilemma (redirect from Euthyphro problem)
because it is good and just". Ever since Plato's original discussion, this question has presented a problem for some theists, though others have thought...
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Plato's 'principle theory' (German: Prinzipienlehre) because they involve two fundamental principles from which the rest of the system derives. Plato...
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2nd-century, adopted Plato's view of evil.: 256, 294, 317 The fourth-century theologian Augustine of Hippo also adopted Plato's view. In his Enchiridion...
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Socratic dialogue (redirect from Plato dialogues)
Socrates is the main character. The protagonist of each dialogue, both in Plato's and Xenophon's work, usually is Socrates who by means of a kind of interrogation...
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(link) Landauer, Thomas K.; Dumais, Susan T. (1997). "A solution to Plato's problem: The latent semantic analysis theory of acquisition, induction, and...
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3758/bf03196773. PMID 16523998. Landauer, T.K; Dumais S.T. (1997). "Solution to Plato's problem: the latent semantic analysis theory of acquisition, induction, and...
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Demiurge (section Plato and the Timaeus)
claimed to reveal Plato's true meaning: a doctrine he learned from Platonic tradition that did not appear outside the academy or in Plato's text. This tradition...
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