Here, however, it is a Platonic realism developed out of debates over the problem of universals.

In a narrower sense the term might indicate the doctrine of Platonic realism.

Thus, he rejected both Platonic realism, and nominalism of all kinds.

Rejects Platonic realism as a requirement for thinking and speaking in general terms.

A daughter of empiricism, scientific skepticism fundamentally rejects Platonic realism.

Two major forms are Platonic realism and Aristotelian realism.

Platonic realism is the view that universals are real entities and they exist independent of particulars.

Platonic realism strongly satisfies one of those constraints, in that it is a theory of what general terms refer to.

That is, to understand terms such as applehood and redness, Platonic realism says that they refer to forms.

Two main criticisms with Platonic realism relate to inherence and difficulty of creating concepts without sense-perception.