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Neural Computation, 2021 Active inference offers a first principle account of sentient behavior, from which special and important cases—for example, reinforcement learning, active learning, Bayes optimal inference, Bayes optimal design—can be derived. Active inference finesses the exploitation-exploration dilemma in relation to prior preferences by placing information gain on
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More than a Reductio: Plato's Method in the Parmenides and Lysis [PDF]
, 2019 Plato’s Parmenides and Lysis have a surprising amount in common from a methodological standpoint. Both systematically employ a method that I call ‘exploring both sides’, a philosophical method for encouraging further inquiry and comprehensively ...
Rodriguez, Evan
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Pico della Mirandola and the Presocratics [PDF]
, 2018 Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494) decided to study all the ancient and medieval schools of philosophy, including the Pre-Socratics, in order to broaden his scope. Pico showed interest in ancient monists.
Steiris, Georgios
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The reality of the not-true in Plato's Sophist
Archai: Revista de Estudos sobre as Origens do Pensamento Ocidental, 2023 The definition of the sophist as "image-maker" allows Plato to add to the novelties he presents in the Sophist two topics he hadn't deepened in his previous dialogues: (a) a "definition" of being (247e) and (b) the influence this position will have on ...
Néstor Luis Cordero
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A Footnote on Alain Badiou’s Critique of Plato’s "Sophist"
Síntesis. Revista de Filosofía, 2022 In his second book on being and event, Logics of Worlds, Alain Badiou describes Plato’s late dialogue, The Sophist as “one of the first transcendental inquiries in the history of thought”.
Keylor Murillo
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Dialectic of eros and myth of the soul in Plato's Phaedrus [PDF]
, 2010 In this paper, I question a widespread reading of a passage in the last part of the Phaedrus dealing with the science of dialectic. According to this reading, the passage announces a new method peculiar to the later Plato aiming at defining natural kinds.
Larsen, Jens Kristian
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Études Platoniciennes, 2020 The contrast between the two compliance devices that are violence and persuasion, is pivotal in Plato’s work and well acknowledged among scholars. Yet, the dichotomy of words and deeds too easily equates two forms of speech, which this paper intends to ...
Lou Clemens
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Epistemological vs. Ontological Relationalism in Quantum Mechanics: Relativism or Realism? [PDF]
, 2017 In this paper we investigate the history of relationalism and its present use in some interpretations of quantum mechanics. In the first part of this article we will provide a conceptual analysis of the relation between substantivalism, relationalism and
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Parts, Forms, and Participation in the Parmenides and Sophist: A Comparison
Études Platoniciennes, 2019 This paper addresses the vexed question of the outcome of the second horn of the dilemma of participation in Plato’s Parmenides bringing in Sophist 257c7-d5 where the Eleatic Stranger accepts what he seems to reject in the Parmenides, namely that a Form ...
Pauline Sabrier
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Socratic Elenchus in the Sophist
APEIRON: a journal for ancient philosophy and science, 2018 This paper demonstrates the central role of the Socratic elenchus in the Sophist. In the first part, I defend the position that the Stranger describes the Socratic elenchus in the sixth division of the Sophist.
Nicolas Zaks
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