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adj. - Pertaining to or characteristic of or in accordance with the belief that that physical objects are impermanent representations of unchanging Ideas, and that the Ideas alone give true knowledge as they are known by the mind.

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  • There are numerous other works in recent literature which may be called Platonistic for one reason or another, but none has emerged which could be called so in a truly...
  • Page 524, Volume 3 and of Wordsworth may be called Platonistic in the vague sense of a tendency toward spiritualism accom - panied by occasional reminiscences of...
  • Page 589, Volume 3 arising from the Platonistic inference that the creation was inferior to the Creator.
  • Platonistic conceptions of species, and to investigate the anatomy, embryonic development and variability of individual organisms.
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