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  Plato
Plato is widely believed to have been a student of Socrates and to have been deeply influenced by his unjust execution.
Plato's mastery of Greek is unquestionable: the grammatical and rhetorical structures of the dialogues are extremely complex; the arguments and analogies, stories and fables, and allusions and allegories are unmatched in cleverness; the wealth of his themes has no parallel, ancient or modern.
Plato is thought to have been born in Athens in May or December in 428 or 427 BC (like all the other ancient Greek philosophers, his birthdate is not exactly known).
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/p/pl/plato.html   (6313 words)

  
  Plato - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Plato was born in Athens or Aegina in May or December in 428 or 427 BC.
Plato asserts that societies have a tripartite class structure corresponding to the appetite/spirit/reason structure of the individual soul.
Plato's thought is often compared with that of his most famous student, Aristotle, whose reputation during the Western Middle Ages so completely eclipsed that of Plato that the Scholastic philosophers referred to Aristotle as "the Philosopher".
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 Plato - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
Plato was born in Athens or Aegina in May or December in 428 BC or 427 BC.
Plato's allegory of the cave was an illustration of Plato's dualistic philosophy.
Nietzsche attacked Plato's moral and political theories, Heidegger expounded on Plato's obfuscation of Being, and Karl Popper argued in in The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945) that Plato's proposal for a government system in The Republic was prototypically totalitarian.
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 Bookyards.com » Authors » Plato
Plato lectured extensively at the Academy, and wrote on many philosophical issues, dealing especially in politics, ethics, metaphysics, and epistemology.
Plato was born in Athens in May or December in 428 or 427 BC (like all the other early western philosophers, his birthdate is not exactly known).
Plato stated that knowledge is essentially justified true belief, an influential belief which informed future developments in epistemology.
www.bookyards.com /biography.html?author_id=315&author_name=Plato   (4176 words)

  
 PLATO System - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about PLATO System   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Plato's philosophy rejects scientific rationalism (establishing facts through experiment) in favour of arguments, because mind, not matter, is fundamental, and material objects are merely imperfect copies of abstract and eternal ‘ideas’.
Born of a noble family, Plato entered politics on the aristocratic side, and in philosophy became a follower of Socrates.
Moreover, the Earth, which lay at the exact centre of the cosmos, was a sphere and was surrounded by a band of crystalline spheres which held in place the Sun, the Moon, and the planets.
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 Plato - LoveToKnow 1911
There is more than one meaning of Plato discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.
We are planning to let all links go to the correct meaning directly, but for now you will have to search it out from the list below by yourself.
This page was last modified 10:26, 22 May 2006.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Plato   (67 words)

  
 LSA: A Solution to Plato's Problem
Plato's solution, of course, was that people must come equipped with most of their knowledge and need only hints and contemplation to complete it.
Sometimes called "Plato's problem", "the poverty of the stimulus", or, in another guise, "the problem of the expert", the question is how observing a relatively small set of events results in beliefs that are usually correct or behaviors that are usually adaptive in a large, potentially infinite variety of situations.
What all modern theories of knowledge acquisition (as well as Plato's) have in common is the postulation of constraints that greatly (in fact, infinitely) narrow the solution space of the problem that is to be solved by induction, that is, by learning.
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 Plato information - Search.com
Plato was born in Athens in May or December in 428 or 427 BC.
Plato asserts that societies have a tripartite class structure corresponding to the appetite/spirit/reason structure of the individual soul.
Plato’s idea for proof of a just society would be everyone being free to practice his or her own talents.
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 Plato - TvWiki, the free encyclopedia
Born Aristocles, was an immensely influential classical Greek philosopher, student of Socrates, teacher of Aristotle, writer, and founder of the Academy in Athens.
Image:Plato's allegory of the cave.jpg In the Republic Books VI and VII, Plato uses a number of metaphors to explain his metaphysical views: the metaphor of the sun, the well-known allegory of the cave, and most explicitly, the divided line.
There are obvious parallels between the Cave allegory and the life of Plato's teacher Socrates (who was killed in his attempt to "open the eyes" of the Athenians), for example.
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 Plato . Enpsychlopedia
Plato is thought to have lectured at the Academy, although the pedagogical function of his dialogs, if any, is not known.
Critics of Plato have speculated that Socrates offended powerful people, and guessed that the charges were trumped up by his enemies, and that the conviction is a fl mark on an otherwise exemplary people.
Plato is thought to have been born in Athens in May or December in 428 or 427 BC (like all the other early western philosophers, his birthdate is not exactly known).
enpsychlopedia.org /psypsych/Plato   (5102 words)

  
 Plato Opus @ LaunchBase.com (Launch Base)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Plato was born in Athens or Aegina in May or December in 428 or 427 BCE.
It is suggested that much of his ethical writing is in pursuit of a society where similar injustices could not occur.
The dialogues are normally grouped into three fairly distinct periods, with a few of them considered transitional works, and some just difficult to place.
www.launchbase.com /encyclopedia/Plato   (2480 words)

  
 Pragmatics (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
What someone says is determined by the conventional meaning of the sentence uttered and contextual processes of disambiguation and reference fixing; what she implicates is associated with the existence to some rational principles and maxims governing conversation (setting aside "conventional implicatures" which we discuss below).
They allow that semantic content, so conceived, is often not what ordinary speakers would identify as ‘what is said’; but they take what is said to be a pragmatic concept, and so do not see this as an objection to their scheme.
Those over on the Contextualist side, in contrast, see the level corresponding to Grice's ‘what is said’ as determined not only by semantics, disambiguation and reference-fixing, but also by a number of other pragmatic processes that ‘intrude’ on the near side and enrich semantic content.
plato.stanford.edu /entries/pragmatics   (17074 words)

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