The fact is, we don't live in a world of abstract Platonic forms.

What underlies every definition is a Platonic Form, the common nature present in different particular things.

God only knows the universal characteristics of particulars - namely Platonic forms.

The very Platonic Form of a sight for sore eyes.

Platonic Forms were the first universals posited as such in philosophy.

He denies that there are Platonic forms of things which are evil or base.

The Platonic form is the ideal triangle - a figure with perfectly drawn lines whose angles add to 180 degrees.

"You have captured the Platonic Form of my concept."

From this fundamental assumption flows a rejection of abstract objects including Platonic forms.

It is opposed to both full-blooded realism, such as the theory of Platonic forms, and nominalism.