Thetheory of Forms,theory of Ideas,Platonic idealism, orPlatonic realism is a philosophical theory of metaphysics developed by the Classical Greek philosopherPlato.

• His phantasy was lost, where reason fades,
  In the calm’d twilight of Platonic shades.
  • John Keats, "Lamia", Part I

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