Their efforts, along with others, led to an undermining of the prevailing Platonic idea of "universals".

In 1829, he was conferred a doctor's degree at Marburg University for his thesis on the original meaning of Platonic ideas.

It thinks its own contents, which are thoughts, equated to the Platonic ideas or forms (eide).

He seems to proceed from the beautiful Platonic idea that meaning in music, however defined, must grow inevitably out of a basic structure.

Jung himself compared archetypes to Platonic ideas.

I am the Platonic idea of a good sport.

What happens after a while is that you begin to create a kind of almost Platonic idea of what the piece is.

These men were like Platonic ideas: they were not life as one had already begun to know it.

It can almost shed its trunk and manage to live alone, according to the Platonic idea in the Timaeus.

Lastly, Schopenhauer departed from Kant in how he interpreted the Platonic ideas.