Plato believed the elements were geometric forms ( the platonic solids ) and he assigned the cube to the element of earth in his dialogue Timaeus.

Plato, as the speaker Timaeus, refers to the Demiurge frequently in the Socratic dialogue Timaeus, circa 360 BC.

Plato, in his dialogue Alcibíades ( circa 390 BC ), uses the expression ta esô meaning " the inner things ", and in his dialogue Theaetetus ( circa 360 BC ) he uses ta exô meaning " the outside things ".

The only contemporaneous mention of Hippocrates is in Plato's dialogue Protagoras, where Plato describes Hippocrates as " Hippocrates of Kos, the Asclepiad.

In his dialogue Republic, Plato uses Socrates to argue for justice that covers both the just person and the just City State.

Besides Zarathushtra's Gathas, Plato gives the earliest surviving account of a " natural theology ", around 360 BC, in his dialogue " Timaeus " he states " Now the whole Heaven, or Cosmos, ... we must first investigate concerning it that primary question which has to be investigated at the outset in every case ,— namely, whether it has existed always, having no beginning of generation, or whether it has come into existence, having begun from some beginning ".

Plato in his dialogue Cratylus gives two alternative etymologies: either the sea restrained Poseidon when walking as a foot-bond ( ποσί-δεσμον ), or he knew many things ( πολλά εἰδότος or πολλά εἰδῶν ).

* The Republic ( Plato ), a dialogue by Plato

Plato, as seen in the dialogue Parmenides, was willing to accept a certain amount of paradox with his forms.

* Commentary on Plato's " Alcibiades I " ( it is disputed whether or not this dialogue was written by Plato, but the Neoplatonists thought it was )

Plato, in his dialogue The Republic Book 6 ( 509D – 513E ), has Socrates explain through the literary device of a divided line his fundamental metaphysical ideas as four separate but logically connected models of the world.

Western humour theory begins with Plato, who attributed to Socrates ( as a semihistorical dialogue character ) in the Philebus ( p. 49b ) the view that the essence of the ridiculous is an ignorance in the weak, who are thus unable to retaliate when ridiculed.

Gérard Genette, a French literary theorist and author of The Architext, describes Plato as creating three imitational genres: dramatic dialogue, pure narrative and epic ( a mixture of dialogue and narrative ).

The Parmenides shows Parmenides using the Socratic method to point out the flaws in the Platonic theory of the Forms, as presented by Socrates ; it is not the only dialogue in which theories normally expounded by Plato / Socrates are broken down through dialectic.

Plato, in his dialogue Timaeus, describes a creation myth involving a being called the demiurge ( δημιουργός " craftsman ").

The first question arises in the dialogue Theaetetus, where Plato identifies thought or opinion with talk or discourse ( logos ).

Classical categorization first appears in the context of Western Philosophy in the work of Plato, who, in his Statesman dialogue, introduces the approach of grouping objects based on their similar properties.

Plato, in The Republic, numbered Simonides with Bias and Pittacus among the wise and blessed, even putting into the mouth of Socrates the words " it is not easy to disbelieve Simonides, for he is a wise man and divinely inspired ," but in his dialogue Protagoras, Plato numbered Simonides with Homer and Hesiod as precursors of the sophist.

* Apollodorus of Phaleron, follower of Socrates and narrator of the dialogue described by Plato in his Symposium

Plato in his dialogue The Statesman tells a " famous tale " that " the sun and the stars once rose in the west, and set in the east, and that the god reversed their motion, and gave them that which they now have as a testimony to the right of Atreus.

Plato says in the Charmides dialogue 156 D-157 B that Zalmoxis was also a great physician who took a holistic approach to healing body and soul ( psyche ), being thus used by Platon for his one philosophical conceptions.

Plato in Cratylus connects the name with ( apolysis ), " redeem ", with ( apolousis ), " purification ", and with ( aploun ), " simple ", in particular in reference to the Thessalian form of the name,, and finally with ( aeiballon ), " ever-shooting ".

Plato calls her Pherepapha () in his Cratylus, " because she is wise and touches that which is in motion ".

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

Very similar statements can also be found in Plato ( Cratylus 385b2, Sophist 263b ).

* Plato ( 1926 ) Plato: Cratylus.

A century or two after the work of Nirukta, the Greek scholar Plato wrote in the Cratylus dialog that "... sentences are, I conceive, a combination of verbs and nouns ".

* Plato: Ion, Republic, Cratylus

Plato in his Cratylus presents the naturalistic view, that word meanings emerge out of a natural process, independent of the language user.

In Cratylus, Plato has Socrates commenting on the origins and correctness of various names and words.

Study of these has led mainstream opinion to accept the observation of the ancient Greek philosopher Plato ( Cratylus 410a ) that Phrygian showed strong affinities to Greek.

In Cratylus ( 398 b ), Plato speculates that the etymology of daimôn / daēmones ( δαίμονες: deity / daêmôn δαήμονες ) is from knowing or wise, however, it is more probably daiō ( δαίω: " to divide, to distribute destinies, to allot ").

The similarity of some Phrygian words to Greek ones was observed by Plato in his Cratylus ( 410a ).

Plato in Cratylus ( 397 e ) recounts the golden race of men who came first.

Socrates quoted by Plato in “ Cratylus ” mentions the deaf who express themselves in gestures movement, depicting that which is light or a higher sphere by raising the hands or describing a galloping horse by imitating its motion.

Cratylus () is the name of a dialogue by Plato.

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* Larkin Plato, " Ann Arbor Community School offers alternative education ," Huron Valley Advisor, 6 Mar.

Plato offers an almost psychoanalytical explanation of the " timocrat " as one who saw his father humiliated by his mother and wants to vindicate " manliness ".

During these years he had published works on Plato and Socrates and a history of philosophy ( 1875 ); but after his retirement he further developed his philosophical position, a speculative eclecticism through which he endeavoured to reconcile metaphysical idealism with the naturalistic and mechanical standpoint of science.

" But in the original, the sentence starts not with the name Crantor but with the ambiguous He, and whether this referred to Crantor or to Plato is the subject of considerable debate.

Plato, for instance writes that " So it is with air: there is the brightest variety which we call aether, the muddiest which we call mist and darkness, and other kinds for which we have no name ...." Among the early Greek Pre-Socratic philosophers, Anaximenes ( mid-6th century BCE ) named air as the arche.

In Republic by Plato, the character Thrasymachus argues that justice is the interest of the strong — merely a name for what the powerful or cunning ruler has imposed on the people.

'" Gromit enjoys eating " KornFlakes " and reading many books, including The Republic, by Pluto ( a nod to the Disney character of the same name and a pun on Plato ); Crime and Punishment, by Fido Dogstoyevsky ( a pun on Fyodor Dostoyevsky ); and a " how-to " guide entitled, Electronics for Dogs.

The town was founded in 1831 from the Town of Locke originally as the " Town of Plato ," but the name was changed to Summerhill in 1832 to avoid conflict with the name of another location.

He admired Plato so much that late in life he took the similar-meaning name Plethon.

Males are enticed with ad campaigns to submit for testing ; those who are VMN-negative are given confidential treatment, including counselling and drugs, and assigned a code name out of the Penguin book of Great Thinkers ( e. g., Shakespeare, Plato, etc .).

Crito is also the name of a pupil and friend of the Greek philosopher Socrates, as well as the name of an imaginary dialogue about justice written by the philosopher Plato in the context of the execution of Socrates.

* mononym: a word indicating the " single name " as generally applied to people e. g. Madonna or Plato.

The problem was discussed under this name by Bertrand Russell, but it actually goes back to Plato.

If, as Plato thinks, the predicate is the name of some universal concept or " form ", how do we explain how the sentence comes to be true or false?

Antisthenes founded a school at the Cynosarges, from which some say the name Cynic derives ; Plato founded a school that gathered at the Academy, after which the school was named, making the gymnasium famous for hundreds of years ; and at the Lyceum, Aristotle founded the Peripatetic school.

However, these are difficult to reconcile with the text of Critias, because he states that the metal was " only a name " by his time, while brass and chalcopyrite continued to be very important through the time of Plato until today.

In Greek, the earliest fragments ( the Carthage inscription and Flavius Josephus ) write his name as Μανεθων Manethōn, so the rendering of his name here is given as Manetho ( the same way that Platōn is rendered " Plato ").

But it was as young Willis Jackson on the long-running sitcom Diff ' rent Strokes that he made his name, along with fellow child co-stars Dana Plato and Gary Coleman.

On such an account, the name ' Aristotle ' might be seen as meaning ' the student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great '.

As the founder of the maieutic method, Socrates becomes Maios ; Plato ( whose Greek name Platon means " broad-shouldered ") becomes Scapulas ( from scapula, shoulder-blade ); as the coiner of the term entelekheia ( lit.

In response to rumors of preceding bassist, Matt Wiedemann, contributing to the band name, Cody Canada only stated that they weren't a band before Jeremy Plato, their current bassist.

" At the very end we learn that the child's name is Euclid and he pulls out a small version of the platohedron showing that the destruction of the world was metaphysical in nature and that the new world of Euclid and Ptolemy I Soter has replaced the old world of Aristotle and Plato.