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- adjective
Platonic .
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Examples
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'Platonian's Mercurial Gazette' will make its appearance yet. "
Emmy Lou Her Book and Heart George Madden Martin 1901
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I dreamt I wandered an ur-NY, a Platonian ideal of NY with wondrous domes and towers, but at the same time was sad because I had no camera.
My January 2010 Tweet Dreams scottedelman 2010
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Law is not some abstract concept of Platonian purity existing in the ether with the heavenly spheres.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Discuss the “neo-Platonian” vs “Aristotlian” approach to software development.
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My suggestion here: He follows the Platonian distinction.
O'Hanlon's Optimism About Iraq At Odds With Brookings' Own Statistics 2009
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Poetry is immoral - quote from sidney, explain context: poetry holds influences, sways the passion, is irrational, thus dangerous to the Platonian republic. debunk: Poetry persents a situation.
Draft: Sidney Arguments fantasyecho 2005
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Poetry is immoral - quote from sidney, explain context: poetry holds influences, sways the passion, is irrational, thus dangerous to the Platonian republic. debunk: Poetry persents a situation.
Outline: Sidney's Defense Augmented fantasyecho 2005
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Platonian, who might have taken up Spinoza in his latter years.
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How do I knock out an infection when the tricorder doesn't recognize Platonian bacteria?
Plato's Stepchildren 1966
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He would work in an automobile agency there; later he would go to Detroit, and within a few years be president of a motor company, rich enough to experiment with motor-boats and to laugh at Howard Griffin or any other Platonian.
The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life Sinclair Lewis 1918
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