ALL meanings of platonism
Pla·to·nism
P p - noun platonism the philosophy or doctrines of Plato or his followers. 1
- noun platonism a Platonic doctrine or saying. 1
- noun platonism the belief that physical objects are impermanent representations of unchanging Ideas, and that the Ideas alone give true knowledge as they are known by the mind. 1
- noun platonism (sometimes lowercase) the doctrine or practice of platonic love. 1
- noun platonism the teachings of Plato and his followers, esp the philosophical theory that the meanings of general words are real existing abstract entities (Forms) and that particular objects have properties in common by virtue of their relationship with these Forms 0
- noun platonism the realist doctrine that mathematical entities have real existence and that mathematical truth is independent of human thought 0
- noun platonism the philosophy of Plato or his school; esp., the doctrine holding that objects of perception are real insofar as they imitate or participate in an independent realm of immutable essences, ideas, or logical forms which constitute the world of essential reality 0
- noun platonism the theory or practice of platonic love 0