Platonism

noun

Pla·to·nism | \ˈplā-tə-ˌni-zəm

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Definition of Platonism

1a : the philosophy of Plato stressing especially that actual things are copies of transcendent ideas and that these ideas are the objects of true knowledge apprehended by reminiscence

b : neoplatonism

2 : platonic love

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