platonic

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Physicists describe this informational layer as a "Platonic realm," a mathematical foundation more real than the physical world we perceive.

From Science Daily • Nov. 10, 2025

It brings to mind not a Platonic plum, but a specific plum I must have enjoyed on some long lost summer day.

From Salon • Jan. 5, 2025

“It was a great wave, and it crashed,” Mr Fortin said after a day flying his drones on the AppleTV+ show Platonic - his first gig with drones since April.

From BBC • Sep. 28, 2024

The Apple Pan, a small restaurant in Los Angeles where just about everything is as it was 76 years ago, is the Platonic ideal of a no-frills 1940s diner.

From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2023

Experimentation thus required a deeply problematic balancing act between Platonic idealism and a crude empiricism.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton