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Fragility is a well known concept. A glass cup is fragile to movements, leather is fragile to heat, and electronic devices are fragile to water. Fragility is the vulnerability of some object, notion, or idea to some stressor. As seen throughout Plato’s Dialogues, Socrates argues that there exists an opposite to everything in life. Adopting this view, we can deduce the opposite of the fragile. To do so, we must first define what is fragile in more philosophical terms: what is fragile is what is harmed by volatility. In such case, the opposite of fragile must be what gains from volatility. We call this opposite the Antifragile.