Platonic sense
Plato's cave allegory- the "universals" are what's outside the cave and the shadows are our perception?
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- Jan 2026
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as a term to describe a method or an attitude in art and literature - atfirst an exceptional accuracy of representation, later a commitment todescribing real events and showing things as they actually exist.
Interesting that I hear this usage a lot, especially as an artist, yet when we were brainstorming words/phrases from reality it didn't occur to me at all. In my mind it was a totally different concept, but it obviously is not.
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