platonism

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Although as an anarchist Chomsky might have been expected to side with the nihilists, in fact his beautiful theory has more in common with platonism or sufism than with anarchism.

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  1. The doctrines or philosophy by Plato or of his followers.

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  1. (philosophy) the philosophical doctrine that abstract concepts exist independent of their names

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  • Mathematical fictionalism (or as I'll call it, fictionalism) is best thought of as a reaction to mathematical platonism. —  Feeds4all documents in category 'SEO'
  • Although as an anarchist Chomsky might have been expected to side with the nihilists, in fact his beautiful theory has more in common with platonism or sufism than with anarchism. —  home
  • What I have elsewhere attacked as Paul Kennedy's 'platonism' about the UN, that is. —  Opinio Juris
  • It may, however, be asserted that Gnosticism anticipated the general development, and that not only with regard to Catholicism, but also with regard to Neo-platonism, which represents the last stage in the inner history of Hellenism. —  History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7)
  • On the other hand, the many subtleties and oddities which have made the later Neo-platonism so repulsive to us, hardly existed for the consciousness of the masses, which could only adopt the fundamental ideas of the Logos system with a great effort. —  The Silesian Horseherd - Questions of the Hour
 

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