Is it only a shadow, like the shadows in Plato's cave?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poem of the week: What mystery pervades a well! by Emily Dickinson] Reference

Both Socrates and Nocrates believe that "Plato is wise.".    From Wordnik.com.  [An Argument from Realism Against Naturalism about Human Beings] Reference

I see a lot of science as looking at shadows in Plato's cave.    From Wordnik.com.  [Books Most Important to You] Reference

They are both disposed to affirm "Wm" read as "Plato is wise.".    From Wordnik.com.  [An Argument from Realism Against Naturalism about Human Beings] Reference

French philosophy no one calls Plato to mind more than he does.    From Wordnik.com.  [Initiation into Philosophy] Reference

As Ryan made selections from an armada of carts, I called Plato Lowery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spider Bones] Reference

Plato is the funniest, best writer I ever read: and he lived 2500 years ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Time For a Blogger Ethics Panel] Reference

In that case, each of them means exactly the same thing when he says "Plato is wise.".    From Wordnik.com.  [An Argument from Realism Against Naturalism about Human Beings] Reference

(I assume for the moment a Theory of Ideas in Plato, tho that is by no means uncontroversial.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Time For a Blogger Ethics Panel] Reference

Yet "Plato is wise" has a different meaning in the realistic world vs. the nominalistic world.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Argument from Realism Against Naturalism about Human Beings] Reference

Plato is definitely easier to understand than Aristotle – at least the one work by Aristotle that I read.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference

For the moment it is the negative conjunction of poetry and painting in Plato that is especially significant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chaosmic Orders: Nonclassical Physics, Allegory, and the Epistemology of Blake's Minute Particulars.] Reference

Plato is justified, and the ideas of Duggar and Armstrong and those of Eugene Wollman now seem prophetic visions.    From Wordnik.com.  [André Lwoff - Nobel Lecture] Reference

Meanwhile, Plato is godless and a totalitarian despot as are the multiculturalists who have invaded universities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fun with Harold « So Many Books] Reference

In either case: (1) Plato is wise; (2) Socrates knows that Plato is wise; and (3) Socrates brain state is the same.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Argument from Realism Against Naturalism about Human Beings] Reference

That human faculty for discovering the truth was called synderesis by St. Paul, a term found also in Plato's Timaeus.    From Wordnik.com.  [February 25th, 2009] Reference

I'm just saying that the brain state does not have to represent these reasons in order to have the thought "Plato is wise.".    From Wordnik.com.  [An Argument from Realism Against Naturalism about Human Beings] Reference

If a person has the thought "Plato is wise", then the truth of that thought has already been "made", subjectively, in her mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Argument from Realism Against Naturalism about Human Beings] Reference

+ We have no time to hear in English Plato's clever specimens of the way in which people would write about love without success.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plato and Platonism] Reference

It is a model of and program for psyche and culture as visible in Plato's Republic as it is in Nixon's America or Caesar's Rome.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART THREE] Reference

Likewise, I see no reason why a brain cannot represent the reasons why "Plato is wise" is true, under either nominalism or realism.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Argument from Realism Against Naturalism about Human Beings] Reference

Trinity in Plato; he has established no mysterious generation between the three pretended principles which he is made to distinguish.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference

Why grant that Socrates and Nocrates could have different contents to the belief that "Plato is wise," while having the same brain state?.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Argument from Realism Against Naturalism about Human Beings] Reference

If the worlds are not otherwise identical, then the situations giving rise to the thought "Plato is wise" might be different in each world.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Argument from Realism Against Naturalism about Human Beings] Reference

To have the thought "Plato is wise" does not mean that the brain must encode the underlying reasons for the objective truth of the thought.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Argument from Realism Against Naturalism about Human Beings] Reference

Nevertheless the idea of Plato is not easily put into practice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Republic] Reference

As the plodding steeds take their way let us recall our Plato -- his.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life] Reference

What was left to the Good, to recall Plato, was indeed what was good.    From Wordnik.com.  [Claremont.org] Reference

(2-RT) Socrates recognizes the universal property of wisdom in Plato.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Argument from Realism Against Naturalism about Human Beings] Reference

Endymion and the great plain called Plato by modern astronomers -- but, by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Half-hours with the Telescope Being a Popular Guide to the Use of the Telescope as a Means of Amusement and Instruction.] Reference

But then you can think of the attributes I am referring to as Plato's Forms.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Path] Reference

I'm currently enrolled in an informal seminar course called Plato's Republic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-09-01] Reference

Go backstage at Alexander McQueen's final show in Paris for Spring 2010 called Plato's Atlantis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Celebrity Online News - Celebrity Gossip, Celebrity Information and Celebrity Reports. Celebrity RSS Feed Available] Reference

This isn’t really different from the sort of censorship advocated in Plato’s “Republic.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » The Bernardine Dohrn of the early 20th century: The terrorist professor at U of Texas law school] Reference

There was an American ship, called the Plato, in port, and I had half a mind to try my luck in her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ned Myers or, a Life Before the Mast] Reference

This is the difference between ourselves and Plato, which is, however, partly a difference of words.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Republic] Reference

A new radiology visualization platform, called Plato's Cave, has been implemented at The Methodist Hospital in Houston.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medgadget] Reference