Natural language dialogues employ open questions ( e. g. " How can I help you?

In the French translation, explanations of certain features of British schools unfamiliar to French students were inserted in the dialogues ( e. g., " Prefect " and " Head Boy "), but they were not distinguished from explanations in the original text of differences between ordinary British schools and wizarding schools.

Before his execution, Mayor Orden reminds Dr. Winter of the dialogues of Socrates in the Apology, a part he played in the high school play, and tells him to make sure that the debt is repaid to the army, i. e., that the resistance is continued.

As there were multiple volumes, however, the numbers need to be used in conjunction with a title in order to make any sense, i. e. 172a by itself could refer to passages in several dialogues, but Symposium 172a refers only to one passage.

Some central ideas of Plato's dialogues are the Theory of Forms, i. e., that the mind is imbued with an innate capacity to understand and contemplate concepts from a higher order preeminent world, concepts more real, permanent, and universal than or representative of the things of this world, which are only changing and temporal ; the idea of the immortal soul being superior to the body ; the idea of evil as simple ignorance of truth ; that true knowledge leads to true virtue ; that art is subordinate to moral purpose ; and that the society of the city-state should be governed by a merit class of propertyless philosopher kings, with no permanent wives or paternity rights over their children, and be protected by an athletically gifted, honorable, duty bound military class.

Further, the number of roundtrips necessary was reduced, allowing asynchronous communication ( e. g. via SMTP ) for simple transaction dialogues.

In much the same way, we recognize the importance of Shakespeare's familarity with Plutarch and Montaigne, of Shelley's study of Plato's dialogues, and of Coleridge's enthusiastic plundering of the writings of many philosophers and theologians from Plato to Schelling and William Godwin, through which so many abstract ideas were brought to the attention of English men of letters.

Though Aristotle wrote many elegant treatises and dialogues ( Cicero described his literary style as " a river of gold "), it is thought that the majority of his writings are now lost and only about one-third of the original works have survived.

Aristotle wrote many dialogues, only fragments of which survived.

In the twentieth year of the Buddha's ministry, he became the Buddha's personal attendant, accompanying him on most of his wanderings and taking the part of interlocutor in many of the recorded dialogues.

Atlantis ( in Greek,, " island of Atlas ") is a legendary island first mentioned in Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias, written about 360 BC.

Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias, written in 360 BC, contain the earliest references to Atlantis.

The four persons appearing in those two dialogues are the politicians Critias and Hermocrates as well as the philosophers Socrates and Timaeus of Locri, although only Critias speaks of Atlantis.

In his works Plato makes extensive use of the Socratic dialogues in order to discuss contrary positions within the context of a supposition.

The conception is highly dramatic ; the form is that of a series of dialogues.

His dialogues on divorce and against the Trinity were also considered obnoxious.

It was reserved for his biographer Karl Benrath to justify him, and to represent him as a fervent evangelist and at the same time as a speculative thinker with a passion for free inquiry, always learning and unlearning and arguing out difficult questions with himself in his dialogues, frequently without attaining to any absolute conviction.

Arguments over death and resurrection claims occur at many religious debates and interfaith dialogues.

Written in the form of dialogues between the legendary Yellow Emperor and his ministers, it offers explanations on the relation between humans, their environment, and the cosmos, on the contents of the body, on human vitality and pathology, on the symptoms of illness, and on how to make diagnostic and therapeutic decisions in light of all these factors.

*** The Analects of Confucius, a twenty-chapter work of dialogues between Confucius and his disciples, recorded by later Confucian scholars.

* Artemi, Eirini, « The mystery of the incarnation into dialogues " de incarnatione Unigenitii " and " Quod unus sit Christus " of St. Cyril of Alexandria », Ecclesiastic Faros of Alexandria, ΟΕ ( 2004 ), 145-277.

Before the current positive era of Eastern and Oriental Orthodox dialogues, Chalcedonians sometimes used to call the non-Chalcedonians " monophysites ", though the Coptic Orthodox Church in reality regards monophysitism as a heresy.

Hofstadter's writing is characterized by an intense interaction between form and content, as is exemplified by the 20 dialogues in GEB, many of which simultaneously talk about and imitate strict musical forms used by Bach, such as canons and fugues.

Most of Hofstadter's books are characterized by some kind of structural alternation: in GEB between dialogues and chapters, in The Mind's I between selections and reflections, in Metamagical Themas between Chapters and Postscripts, and so forth.

Both the dialogues and the evolving paintings were ostensive penitential lessons that even illiterate people ( who were the overwhelming majority ) could understand.

In many of Plato's dialogues, such as the Meno, and in particular the Theaetetus, Socrates considers a number of theories as to what knowledge is, the last being that knowledge is true belief that has been " given an account of " — meaning explained or defined in some way.

Plato was the Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician and writer of philosophical dialogues who founded the Academy in Athens which was the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.

The majority of Proclus ' works are commentaries on dialogues of Plato ( Alcibiades, Cratylus, Parmenides, Republic, Timaeus ).

This permeates Plato's dialogues, especially The Republic, in which the leaders of his proposed utopia are to be philosopher kings: rulers who understand the Form of the Good and possess the courage to act accordingly.

Equally important to later developments are texts on poetry, rhetoric, and sophistry, including many of Plato's dialogues, such as Cratylus, Ion, Gorgias, Lesser Hippias, and Republic, along with Aristotle's Poetics, Rhetoric, and On Sophistical Refutations.

* Several dialogues by Plato including Plato's Republic, Meno and The Apology.

:" While Plato sprinkled the seeds of all wisdom throughout all his dialogues, yet he collected the precepts of moral philosophy in the books on the Republic, the whole of science in the Timaeus, and he comprehended the whole of theology in the Parmenides.

Plato's Phaedo ( or ;, Phaidon, gen .: Φαίδωνος ) is one of the great dialogues of his middle period, along with the Republic and the Symposium.

Unlike most of Plato's dialogues, Socrates does not appear in the Laws: the dialogue takes place on the island of Crete, and Socrates appears outside of Athens in Plato's writings only twice, in the Phaedrus, where he is just outside the city's walls, and in the Republic, where he goes down to the seaport Piraeus five miles outside of Athens.

Leo Strauss identified a four-part structure to the Republic, perceiving the dialogues as a drama enacted by particular characters, each with a particular perspective and level of intellect:

Cicero's dialogue imitates the style of the Platonic dialogues, and treats many of the topics touched upon in Plato's Republic.

This understanding of philosophia permeates Plato's dialogues, especially the Republic.

The muse inspires the poet ( Homer in Ion ’ s case ) and the poet inspires the rhapsode .” Plato ’ s dialogues are themselves “ examples of artistry that continue to be stageworthy ;” it is a paradox that “ Plato the supreme enemy of art is also the supreme artist .” Plato develops a more elaborate critique of poetry in other dialogues such as in Phaedrus 245a, Symposium 209a, Republic 398a, Laws 817 b-d.

The forms are typically described in dialogues such as the Phaedo, Symposium and Republic as transcendent, perfect archetypes, of which objects in the everyday world are imperfect copies.

Miller's work has focused on several of the late dialogues, notably the Parmenides, Statesman, and Philebus, as well as the Republic.

His prose works on various subjects – Prometheus, dialogues like Symposium ( a banquet at which Virgil, Horace and Messalla were present ), De cultu suo ( on his manner of life ) and a poem In Octaviam (" Against Octavia ") of which the content is unclear-were ridiculed by Augustus, Seneca and Quintilian for their strange style, the use of rare words and awkward transpositions.

The “ Videoviews ” series consists of Sharps ’ dialogues with Bruce Nauman ( 1970 ), Joseph Beuys ( 1972 ), Vito Acconci ( 1973 ), Chris Burden ( 1973 ), Lowell Darling ( 1974 ), and Dennis Oppenheim ( 1974 ).

Many of Plato's dialogues concern the search for a definition of some important concept ( justice, truth, the Good ), and it is likely that Plato was impressed by the importance of definition in mathematics.

Giovanni Francesco Anerio's Teatro harmonico spirituale ( 1619 ) is a set of 14 dialogues, the longest of which is 20 minutes long and covers the conversion of St. Paul and is for four soloists: Historicus ( narrator ), tenor ; St. Paul, tenor ; Voice from Heaven, bass ; and ananias, tenor.

Other works by Bembo include a History of Venice from 1487 to 1513 ( published in 1551 ), as well as dialogues, poems and essays.

Two main varieties of speech recognition are used in IVR: that based upon predefined grammars ( used in " directed " dialogues ), and that based on statistically trained language models ( used in " natural language " dialogues ).

Italian writers of collections of dialogues, following Plato's model, include Torquato Tasso ( 1586 ), Galileo ( 1632 ), Galiani ( 1770 ), Leopardi ( 1825 ), and a host of others.

However, the Rabbinical Council of America ( RCA ), with Soloveitchik's approval, then engaged in a number of interfaith dialogues with both Catholic and Protestant Christian groups.

Wieland's tastes had changed ; the writings of his early Swiss years — Der geprüfte Abraham ( The Trial of Abraham's Faith, 1753 ), Sympathien ( 1756 ), Empfindungen eines Christen ( 1757 ) — were still in the manner of his earlier writings, but with the tragedies, Lady Johanna Gray ( 1758 ), and Clementina von Porretta ( 1760 ) — the latter based on Samuel Richardson's Sir Charles Grandison — the epic fragment Cyrus ( 1759 ), and the " moral story in dialogues ," Araspes und Panthea ( 1760 ), Wieland, as Gotthold Lessing said, " forsook the ethereal spheres to wander again among the sons of men.