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 significant manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

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 Platonic dicta and images.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Page 589, Volume 3 arising from the Platonistic inference that the creation was inferior to the Creator.    From Wordnik.com.  [PRIMITIVISM] Reference

Platonistic conceptions of species, and to investigate the anatomy, embryonic development and variability of individual organisms.    From Wordnik.com.  [EVOLUTIONISM] Reference

The doughnut on the table but which is made of chocolate instead of vanilla; the Platonistic idea of “doughnuthood” (if Platonism fails).    From Wordnik.com.  [Salvation Santa] Reference

Some rival theories of abstract cognition, prevalent in the period, did not require a Platonistic ontology, and arguably were more philosophically satisfying.    From Wordnik.com.  [Malebranche's Theory of Ideas and Vision in God] Reference

Platonistic aesthetics of Patrizi and others made little headway in the face of the sixteenth century's redis - covery and normative application of Aristotle's Poetics.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLATONISM IN THE RENAISSANCE] Reference

Platonistic conception became a basis for classical taxonomy in which plants and animals were classified into kinds that are sharply demarcated and allow no intergrading.    From Wordnik.com.  [EVOLUTIONISM] Reference

The goal of Castiglione's book, which also takes the popular dialogue form inherited from Plato and Cicero, is the Platonistic attempt “to form with words a perfect courtier.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLATONISM IN THE RENAISSANCE] Reference

It must be recognized, too, that a sizable group of mathematicians of Platonistic persuasion take the view that mathematics simply has not yet advanced far enough to be able to cope with such vexing questions as arise in modern set theory; that the “truth” con - cerning these is still a matter for investigation and that their rigorous solutions are still attainable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Stuart Pivar is a brilliant eccentric with an aesthetically based Platonistic obsession.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScreenTalk] Reference

Maybe it's my Platonistic inclinations, but I've never been particularly happy with this choice.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Thinking Reed] Reference

(and setting it on the characteristically “hermeneutic” path which has predominated in modern continental philosophy) but who had unfortunately still remained bogged down in the remnants of the Platonistic idea of the search for ahistorical truths.    From Wordnik.com.  [Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel] Reference

The Platonistic philosophy that abstract mathematical objects have a definite existence in some realm outside of Mankind, with the task of the mathematician being to uncover or discover eternal, immutable truths about those objects, gave way to an acceptance that the subject is the product of Mankind, the result of a particular kind of human thinking.    From Wordnik.com.  [MAA Column - Devlin's Angle by Keith Devlin] Reference

According to this anti-Platonistic view, which had adherents among rationalists (e.g.    From Wordnik.com.  [Malebranche's Theory of Ideas and Vision in God] Reference

Logos is then, after a Platonistic concept, the sum total of ideas and the intelligible world ( "De Opif.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference

Many themes from his work have simply gone unmentioned ” his anticipation of epistemological externalism and defense of a strong internalist alternative, his insightful analysis of predication and correlative nominalistic alternative to classical Platonistic categorial ontology, his sophisticated account of induction as a form of vindicatory practical reasoning, his significant contributions to ethical theory and the theory of action, and his masterful interpretations of the work of many of the discipline's great historical figures, not as scholarly museum exhibits, but always as active participants in a continuing philosophical conversation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wilfrid Sellars] Reference

(2) By getting rid of Platonistic elements in his treat - ment of natural selection, Darwin established evolu - tionary science on a nominalistic basis.    From Wordnik.com.  [EVOLUTIONISM] Reference

Platonistic literature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference