Associations to the word «Platonism»

Wiktionary

PLATONISM, proper noun. The philosophy of Plato.
PLATONISM, noun. Alternative letter-case form of Platonism

Dictionary definition

PLATONISM, noun. (philosophy) the philosophical doctrine that abstract concepts exist independent of their names.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky