Meaning of Platonist | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A member of the philosophical school of thought established by Plato; a believer in Platonism.
2. One who holds similar beliefs, particularly that abstract ideas are real.
3. A platonic lover.
   obsolete, rare

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Examples

“[St Augustine of Hippo] became of a Maniche, and of a platoniste a good christian.”

“I suspect⟳ that in their hearts most working mathematicians are Platonists, in that they take⟳ it as a matter⟳ of unassailable if unprovable fact that mathematical reality stands apart from the world, and is at least as real as the world, and possibly gives shape⟳ to the world, as Plato suggested.”

“So attention to Quine and Putnam’s writings is important, not just to set⟳ the record⟳ straight, but because it reveals some new argumentative strategies for platonists to exploit.”

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