Quoting Plato in Porphyrius' Cuestiones homericas

Quoting "the environment:: Touchstones on Earth

Pleasure and Illusion in Plato

Plato links pleasure with illusion, and this link explains his rejection of the view that all desires are rational desires for the good. The Protagoras and Gorgias show connections between pleasure and illusion; the Republic develops these into a psychological theory. One part of the soul is not only prone to illusions, but also incapable of the kind of reasoning that can dispel them. Pleasure ...

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

A Simple, Robust Leadtime-Quoting Policy

W e examine leadtime-quoting polices for minimizing average lead time subject to customer service constraints on fill rate, tardiness, or relative tardiness in simple systems with exponential and normal processing times. By studying the resulting safety leadtimes implied by each policy we gain insight into why some policies perform more robustly with respect to different measures of customer se...