Both Plato's cave and Platonism have meaningful, not just superficial connections, because Plato's ideas were preceded and probably influenced by the hugely popular Pythagoreans of ancient Greece, who believed that the world was, quite literally, generated by numbers.
Gua Plato miwah Platonisme madué sané paiketan, nénten wantah paikétan sané biasa, saantukan usulan Plato kakawitin miwah minab kaicénin iusan olih Pythagoras sané pinih kasub ring Yunani kuno, sané kagega yéning jagat, manut harfiah, kapolihang olih angka.