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Plato, a Legendary card
Plato was an ancient Greek philosopher of Classical Athens who is most commonly considered the foundational thinker of the Western philosophical tradition.
- Rarity
- Legendary
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 77
- DEF
- 93
- Power
- 170
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 1,200,000
Power 170 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
Plato quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Plato card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Plato's most famous contribution is his Theory of Forms, which aims to solve what is now known as the problem of ______.
Answer
universals. Plato's most famous contribution is his Theory of Forms, which aims to solve what is now known as the problem of universals. From the Plato article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Vancouver. Vancouver 95 · Viola Davis 85 · Dick Van Dyke 80 · Plato 77 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Dick Van Dyke. Dick Van Dyke 5,000,000 · D4vd 3,700,000 · Christina Applegate 2,200,000 · Plato 1,200,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- An innovator of the literary dialogue and dialectic forms, Plato influenced all the major areas of theoretical philosophy and practical philosophy, and was the founder of the Academy, a philosophical school in Athens where Plato taught the collection of philosophical theories that would later become known as Platonism.
- Plato's most famous contribution is his Theory of Forms, which aims to solve what is now known as the problem of universals.
- He was influenced by the pre-Socratic thinkers Pythagoras, Heraclitus, and Parmenides, although much of what is known about them is derived from Plato himself.
Why it is Legendary
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Plato article was read about 1,200,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 77 and blocks with 93: each hit it takes is cut by 37 %.
How to get Plato
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Plato (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Marie-Lan Nguyen, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
