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The version of the plan that never meets friction, gravity, or people.
means A standard or model so perfect it exists mainly in the mind, used as a measure for how far reality falls short.
from From Latin idealis, built on Greek idea — 'form' or 'pattern,' from idein, 'to see.' Plato used idea for the eternal, perfect blueprints he believed sat behind every imperfect thing in the visible world; 'ideal' inherited that sense of a flawless archetype floating just above the mess of actual experience.
- origin
- From Greek idea, meaning form or pattern
- economics use
- Describes markets that assume zero transaction cost
- danger
- Often used to justify ignoring messy reality
- philosophy
- Plato thought ideals more real than things