Plato, Republic 508E

Anaesthesia for the Republic of Plato *

While Plato wished to rise to a knowledge of the Supreme Idea through the realization of the lower ideas, and showed that these contain the essence of things, he pointed out that it is the object of science completely to disclose the attributes of all entities, the idea of good being the key-stone of all rational investigation. Notwithstanding the remoteness of the perfect State, advances in an...

: 9693 ( 9000 ) The Unity of the Soul in Plato ' s Republic

In Book Four of Plato's Republic, Socrates divides the soul. He argues that because one thing cannot do or undergo opposites in the same respect, in the same relation, and at the same time, some cases of psychological conflict can only be explained by supposing that the soul is actually more than one thing. But Socrates does not seem to deny that the soul is a unity. Rather, he seems to hold th...

Populations are Multisets-PLATO

There are presently many and seemingly different optimization algorithms, based on unrelated paradigms. Herein we propose a framework to encompass those heuristics, providing a common working structure and a basis for their comparison. A formal de nition, based on the multiset formalism is presented. We also show how to express some common operators in our framework and we present some (partial...

Plato and Innatism

Plato and Divination

Plato uses the idea of divinatory knowledge as a metaphorical descriptor for a variety of kinds of daytime, waking knowing. What unites these examples is that they all include discussion of a kind of knowing that cannot account for itself, and that is tentative, imagistic and non-discursive. These metaphorical uses can further be illuminated by his more detailed discussion of divinatory knowled...