Platonic
- adjective
- /pləˈtɒnɪk/
- Formal
- The philosopher discussed the concept of Platonic forms as the basis of his theory.
- Platonic dialogues
- Platonic idea
- Platonic ideal
I want to hide in this platonic reality of pure forms.
- I want to hide in this platonic reality of pure forms.
- Now, Xenophon also wrote Platonic dialogues as Plato did.
- Now he he goes on and he tells us Platonic dialogues are model exercises.
- And they believe in the space of where these forms exist, like Platonic forms, and it's like another dimension.
- But, and this is deeply inspired by Socrates and Plato, especially the Platonic dialogues.
- Notice that the Freudian picture, though it has three parts, isn't exactly the Platonic picture.
- That is, we have abstract ideas and objects, numbers, sets, logic, truths and falsehoods, and the entire Platonic world of ideals.
- This is obviously in the Platonic and the whole Neoplatonic tradition, this idea of participation that.
- Second, you have the emergence of platonic truth, which is goodness, harmony, peace, empathy, compassion, love, kindness, joy.
- So not to be all correction, but isn't that a three-dimensional platonic solid?
- And it's based on just a few fundamental patterns that our ancestors called the Platonic solids, for example.
- Where Kepler Pez, he's a mathematician and he's, he knows that geometry is beautiful and perfect and there's certain number of Platonic solids.
- You can use either Platonic language would be that looks nice.
- And that's where that's it's not unlike the Platonic ideas about the Plato's notion of the.
Examples
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And it's based on just a few fundamental patterns that our ancestors called the Platonic solids, for example.
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That is, we have abstract ideas and objects, numbers, sets, logic, truths and falsehoods, and the entire Platonic world of ideals.
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All this stuff gets in the way of thinking about the Platonic forms.
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So what are these deep Platonic ideas about the nature of love?
Academic text (2011) -
The idea that some forms are indeed primary is an ancient Platonic idea.
Academic text (1994) -
He says these things remind us of the Platonic forms.
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Since he was influenced by Platonic philosophy, particularly the theory of innate ideas, we shall begin with this theory.
Academic text (1996) -
The presence of the symbol might be viewed as Bogan's continuing loyalty to the Platonic tradition.
Academic text (1998) -
But for some years, Leibniz did subscribe to immortality as conceived in the Platonic tradition.
Academic text (1998) -
But, and this is deeply inspired by Socrates and Plato, especially the Platonic dialogues.
Synonyms
The belief that the mind makes reality rather than matter
About Plato's belief that perfect, unchanging forms exist beyond things we can touch
Compounds
- Specialized
A 3D shape with all the same regular flat faces, like a cube or tetrahedron
- Specialized
About 25,800 years when Earth's axis slowly turns and moves the seasons
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Platonic comes from the name Plato, a famous ancient Greek thinker who said true reality is made of perfect 'forms' behind the things we see. So Platonic means 'about Plato' or 'about his idea of perfect, ideal things'.