The "extreme realists" or Platonists, . . . hold that abstractions exist as
real entities or archetypes in another dimension of reality and that the
concretes we perceive are merely their imperfect reflections, but the concretes
evoke the abstractions in our mind. (According to Plato, they do so by evoking
the memory of the archetypes which we had known, before birth, in that other
dimension.)
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