1.   The painting was not an accurate representation of the Falls but a kind of Platonic ideal.

2.   Among economists, this so-called efficient market theory is just that, a theory, reflecting a Platonic ideal of the marketplace.

3.   But optimizing every actin-myosin pairing is less an achievable goal than a Platonic ideal.

4.   For adolescent boys, the movies are the Platonic ideal of great cinema.

5.   Fortunately for her, Massachusetts is one of those states where the legislators regard budget deadlines as more of a platonic ideal.

6.   Numbers are not Platonic ideals but neurological creations, artifacts of the way the brain parses the world.

7.   The confrontation that we are calling for with the apostate regimes does not know Socratic debates...Platonic ideals...nor Aristotelian diplomacy.

8.   The current Platonic ideal here is Dell Computer, which builds its computers to order but still turns them out quickly and cheaply.