PLATONISM
Platonism
Platonism is the philosophy of Plato or the name of other philosophical systems considered closely derived from it. With a lower case "p", "platonism' refers to the philosophy that affirms the existence of abstract objects, which are asserted to "exist" in a "third realm distinct both from the sensible external world and from the internal world of consciousness, and is the opposite of nominalism . Lower case "platonists" need not accept any of the doctrines of Plato.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Platonism
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