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Platonism

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Pla·to·nism / ˈplātnˌizəm/ • n. the philosophy of Plato or his followers. See Plato. ∎ any of various revivals of Platonic doctrines or related ideas, esp. 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: Pla·to·nist n.

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