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Platonist

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Noun

1. platonist

an advocate of Platonism

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Platonist

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noun
1. 
the teachings of Plato and his followers, esp the philosophical theory that the meanings of general words are real existing abstract entities (Forms) and that particular objects have properties in common by virtue of their relationship with these Forms
Compare nominalism, conceptualism, intuitionism
2. 
the realist doctrine that mathematical entities have real existence and that mathematical truth is independent of human thought
3.  Neo-Platonism

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Platonist

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noun
1. 
the philosophy of Plato or his school; esp., the doctrine holding that objects of perception are real insofar as they imitate or participate in an independent realm of immutable essences, ideas, or logical forms which constitute the world of essential reality
see also idealism
2. 
the theory or practice of platonic love

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Platonist

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n.
The philosophy of Plato, especially insofar as it asserts ideal forms as an absolute and eternal reality of which the phenomena of the world are an imperfect and transitory reflection.

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