Platonist

Example Sentences

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“If you are a pure Platonist, you damn the whole thing,” Archibald Cox told Gormley, his biographer.

From New York Times • Feb. 15, 2023

One doesn’t need to be a Platonist to recognize that the status quo in philosophy is far short of ideal.

From Slate • Feb. 3, 2014

Whether you’re a Platonist, an Aristotelian, or something else, it seems pretty clear that scientists do decide that some features of the systems they’re studying are crucial and others are not.

From Scientific American • Mar. 1, 2013

I think economists’ faith in an orderly universe is Platonist: There is an absolute orderly world, they hope, if only we could logically uncover it.

From New York Times • Apr. 16, 2012

For most of that time, as far as we know, he was a straight-down-the-line Platonist.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith