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sponsorship: The research for this presentation was made possible by the generous support of the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme through the ERC Advanced Grant Not another History of Platonism, grant agreement No. 885273 (https://hiw.kuleuven.be/dwmc/not another history of platonism).