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  • 1Plato's Problem — is the term given by Noam Chomsky to the gap between knowledge and experience. It presents the question of how we account for our knowledge when environmental conditions seem to be an insufficient source of information. It is used in linguistics… …

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  • 2Plato: metaphysics and epistemology — Robert Heinaman METAPHYSICS The Theory of Forms Generality is the problematic feature of the world that led to the development of Plato’s Theory of Forms and the epistemological views associated with it.1 This pervasive fact of generality appears …

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  • 3Contemporary philosophy — is the present period in the history of Western philosophy beginning at the end of the 19th century with the professionalization of the discipline and the rise of analytic and continental philosophy. The phrase contemporary philosophy is a piece… …

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  • 4Plato (comic poet) — Plato (also Plato Comicus) was an Athenian comic poet and contemporary of Aristophanes. None of his plays survive intact, but the titles of thirty of them are known, including a Hyperbolus (c. 420 416 BC), Victories (after 421), Cleophon (in 405) …

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  • 5PLATO AND PLATONISM° — The influence exercised by the Greek philosopher Plato on posterity both directly and through his interpreters was enormous and has been detailed in a vast literature. The direct influence of Plato on Jewish circles is much less pervasive. It… …

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  • 6Plato — /play toh/, n. 1. 427 347 B.C., Greek philosopher. 2. a walled plain in the second quadrant of the face of the moon, having a dark floor: about 60 miles (96 km) in diameter. * * * orig. Aristocles born 428/427, Athens, or Aegina, Greece died… …

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  • 7Plato's Stepchildren — NOTOC ST episode name = Plato s Stepchildren Kirk and his officers are forced to perform for the Platonians. series = TOS ep num = 65 prod num = 067 remas. num = 35 date = November 22, 1968 writer = Meyer Dolinsky director = David Alexander guest …

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  • 8Greek arithmetic, geometry and harmonics: Thales to Plato — Ian Mueller INTRODUCTION: PROCLUS’ HISTORY OF GEOMETRY In a famous passage in Book VII of the Republic starting at Socrates proposes to inquire about the studies (mathēmata) needed to train the young people who will become leaders of the ideal… …

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  • 9Cultural influence of Plato's Republic — Plato s The Republic has been influential in literature and art. Contents 1 Similarities in literature 1.1 Aristophanes 1.2 Utopias 1.3 Dystopias …

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  • 10The Republic (Plato) — The Republic   Author(s) Plato …

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