Platonist

platonist English Platonism Etymology From en la Platonista, from la Plato + la -ista, equivalent to en Plato -ist. Noun A member of the philosophical school of thought established by Plato; a believer in Platonism. en Platonician en 1549 Hugh Latimer The Seconde Sermon... Preached before the Kynges Maiestie [St Augustine of Hippo] became of a Maniche, and of a platoniste a good christian. One who holds similar beliefs, particularly that abstract ideas are real. en March 2 1992 Richard Preston The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1992/03/02/the-mountains-of-pi The Mountains of Pi I suspect that in their hearts most working mathematicians are Platonists, in that they take it as a matter of unassailable if unprovable fact that mathematical reality stands apart from the world, and is at least as real as the world, and possibly gives shape to the world, as Plato suggested. https://web.archive.org/web/20260907201851/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1992/03/02/the-mountains-of-pi 7 September 2026 en rare obsolete A platonic lover. Derived terms en Neoplatonist Translations follower of Plato; holder of similar ideas Czech: cs platonik m Finnish: fi platonikko Greek: el Πλατωνίστης m Hungarian: hu Ido: io Platonisto Polish: pl platonik m, pl platończyk m Portuguese: pt Russian: ru плато́ник m References Platonist n 145425 en eponyms