Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- adj. Of, relating to, or characteristic of Plato or his philosophy: Platonic dialogues; Platonic ontology.
- adj. Transcending physical desire and tending toward the purely spiritual or ideal: platonic love.
- adj. Speculative or theoretical.
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- adj. Of or relating to the ancient Greek philosopher Plato or his philosophies.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Of or pertaining to Plato, or his philosophy, school, or opinions.
- adj. Pure, passionless; nonsexual; philosophical.
- n. A follower of Plato; a Platonist.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to Plato (about 427-347 b. c.), or to his doctrines.
- n. A follower of Plato; a Platonist.
- n. One who loves with a Platonic affection.
- Pertaining to the Greek comic poet Plato (about 427-388 b. c.).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. of or relating to or characteristic of Plato or his philosophy
- adj. free from physical desire
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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˜Platonic solids™ (the tetrahedron or pyramid, the cube, the octahedron, the dodecahedron, and the icosahedron, assigned in the Platonic tradition starting with Timaeus 54d-56b to the elements of which the universe was composed and to the universe itself or to the fifth element, ether).
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However, admiration for Socrates is not enough to merit the label Platonic, and it must be acknowledged that the theory of Forms never found a home in
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Moreover he proposed that the choices of such OR self-collapses are not random, but influenced by what he termed Platonic information embedded in Planck scale geometry.
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Those intuitions which we call Platonic are seldom scientific, they seldom explain the phenomena or hit upon the actual law of things, but they are often the highest expression of that activity which they fail to make comprehensible.
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The belief in Platonic idealism may be the primary dividing line in philosophy, really.
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A few of these instances may, perhaps, represent what is usually called a Platonic union.
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Tom could just as easily be described as my Platonic Soul Mate PSM, but by God, keep your eye on that “P.”
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Only five shapes fit the bill: the tetrahedron, the cube, the octahedron, the icosahedron and the dodecahedron, the quintet known as the Platonic solids since Plato wrote about them in the Timaeus.
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Today, these so-called Platonic values may be provable in a new way, as universal consciousness that orders and patterns the forms of nature.
Deepak Chopra: A New Creation Story: Beyond Religion and Science
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Confusingly this stance is also called Platonic idealism.
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