Platonist

Noun

obsolete rare

A member of the philosophical school of thought established by Plato; a believer in Platonism. / One who holds similar beliefs, particularly that abstract ideas are real.

Japanese Meaning

プラトンの哲学に基づく学派に属する者、またはプラトン主義を信奉する者。 / 抽象的な概念や理念が実在すると考える者。

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As a dedicated Platonist, she argued that abstract forms exist independently of the physical world.

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熱心なプラトン主義者として、彼女は抽象的なイデアが物質世界とは独立して存在すると主張した。

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A member of the philosophical school of thought established by Plato; a believer in Platonism.

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

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One who holds similar beliefs, particularly that abstract ideas are real.

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.

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Sense（3）

(rare, obsolete) A platonic lover.

Platonists

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