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Platonism

Syllabification: (Pla·to·nism)
Pronunciation: /ˈplātnˌizəm/
Definition of Platonism

noun

  • the philosophy of Plato or his followers. See Plato.
  • any of various revivals of Platonic doctrines or related ideas, especially Neoplatonism and Cambridge Platonism (a 17th-century attempt to reconcile Christianity with humanism and science).
  • the theory that numbers or other abstract objects are objective, timeless entities, independent of the physical world and of the symbols used to represent them.

Derivatives

Platonist

noun

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