supported by National Key R&D Program of China(Grant No.2023YFF0725600);National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.62236004,62206078,62441603)。
Building an agent capable of conducting both open-domain and task-oriented dialogues,known as mixed-type dialogues,has been an enduring challenge for the AI community.Previous approaches have focused on constructing l...
Plato’s last dialogue,the Laws,occupies an anomalous position within his larger body of work.An individual identified as the“Athenian stranger”replaces Socrates and reverses key Socratic teachings,most notably by e...
The authors express their gratitude to the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada for financial support through a Discovery Grant(Grant No.06408).
Vertical orthogonal joints are a common feature in shallow crustal rocks.There are several competing theories for their formation despite the ubiquity.We examined the exceptional exposures of orthogonal joints in flat...
This article examines the complex interplay between abstraction and representation in the ontology of images.Images inhabit an in-between space as tangible artifacts that also convey intangible ideas and meanings.The ...
Hegel was highly influenced by Plato’s philosophy,as appears in his Lectures on the History of Philosophy.The German philosopher rightly attributed to Plato an“aesthetic”theory meant as a search for the meaning of ...
“Naming of Parts”and“plato told”are two poems written respectively by Henry Reed and E.E.Cummings during the Second World War.“Naming of Parts”depicts the opposition and assimilation of two voices in the poem wh...
The Republic of Plato is a philosophical treatise describing the ideal city-state,a self-sufficient civil entity in the world of Ideas(Forms)that enables both individuals and the society to thrive.Elements of the Repu...