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The philosophical doctrine that abstract concepts exist independent of their names
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platonism
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Platonism , rendered as a proper noun , is the philosophy of Plato or the name of other philosophical systems considered closely derived from it. In narrower usage, platonism , rendered as a common noun (with a lower case 'p', subject to sentence case ), ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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1560s, from Plato (see Platonic ) + -ism .
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n. (alternative case form of Platonism English)
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Platonism \Pla"to*nism\, n. [Cf. F. Platonisme.] The doctrines or philosophy by Plato or of his followers. Note: Plato believed God to be an infinitely wise, just, and powerful Spirit; and also that he formed the visible universe out of pre["e]xistent amorphous ...
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Platonism of the Renaissance, as developed in the fourteenth century by Ficino and Pico.
These philosophers did not consider that Platonism had undergone continual alterations, and that those who gave it some analogy with the notions of the Gnostics were later in their origin than most of the sects comprehended under this name Mosheim has proved (in his Instit.
It is from this mixture of Orientalism, Platonism, and Judaism, that Gnosticism arose, which had produced so many theological and philosophical extravagancies, and in which Oriental notions evidently predominate.
Transit, of course, wasn't Hindu - more a mixture of Buddhism and fascism, actually, a stew of Zen and Tantra and Platonism and Gestalt therapy and Poundian economics and what-all else, and neither Krishna nor Allah nor Jehovah nor any other divinity figured in its beliefs.