Meno: I admit the cogency of your argument, and therefore, Socrates, I wonder that knowledge should be preferred to right opinion-or why they should ever differ. Socrates: And shall I explain this wonder to you? Meno: Do tell me. Socrates: You would not wonder if you had ever observed the images of Daedalus; but perhaps you have not got them in your country? Meno: What have they to do with the ...

As a service to the satellite operator community, the Center for Space Standards & Innovation (CSSI) offers SOCRATES—Satellite Orbital Conjunction Reports Assessing Threatening Encounters in Space. CSSI runs a list of all satellite payloads on orbit against a list of all objects on orbit using the catalog of all unclassified NORAD two-line element sets (TLEs) to look for satellite conjunctions ...

According to Socrates, as he is described in Plato?s Phaedo, the definition of a true philosopher wise man who continuously practicing dying and being dead. Already this life, tries free his soul from body order acquire knowledge progressively becoming detached body. Centuries after it was written, Phaedo continued play role for some early Christian authors, article focuses on three instances w...

Editor of scientific journal: I never expected to bump into you in Tavistock Square, Socrates. But I'm pleased to see you, because I have a perplexing problem that I'd like to discuss. Socrates: I shall do my best. Editor: You know, of course, that scientific papers submitted to journals are usually sent out for peer review? Socrates: Such a system was never used in Athens. But I think you refe...

The majority of communication systems are built on the principle of two distinct parties communicating with each other. Dynamic traffic information and navigation systems, on the other hand, also embody the principle of area-based communication. Moreover, they demand the use of a distributed communications network consisting of both fixed and mobile entities. This paper describes the general st...

Reasoning in the activity of evaluating arguments. All arguments involve the claim that one or more propositions (the premise) provide some grounds for accepting another proposition (the conclusion). Philosophers have sorted arguments into two broad categories – induction and deduction – based on the nature of the relationship between premise and conclusion. Valid deductive arguments involve th...

The 19 century Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard was a profoundly religious thinker. He is also regarded as the father of Existentialism, one of the most important philosophical movements of the 20 century. The term ‘existentialist’ is applied to those philosophers, like Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, who held that the foundation of all philosophical thought is to be found in the actual,...