Interesting to note is that most "platonists," I think, are people who work in fields where everything is ephemeral, inconcrete and theoretic, where nothing has to directly measure up to reality to be broken by it. There are very few idealists digging ditches or designing engines
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There has been a Manichean-type struggle for millennia between the Platonic and Aristotelian worldviews, broadly speaking. (Yes, midwits, Aristotle was too lazy to count the number of teeth in a woman's head, but at least he thought teeth and women were real.)
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And when you have invested enough of your youness into an idea (such that the idea is more real than reality) there necessarily exists a cognitive dissonance that your subconscious is constantly defending against that destroyer of peace reality. It sounds exhausting.
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I think some ideas are more real than reality, but the ideas still have to be based on real observations. I think Plato's forms are more like theories or trends in that way.
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