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Add Platonic SX essay to philosophy section

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Plato's allegory of the cave applied to web development: HTML/CSS/JS as
shadows on the wall, s-expressions as Forms, the bootstrapper as
demiurge, anamnesis as the wire format's efficiency, the divided line
as SX's rendering hierarchy, and the Form of the Good as the principle
that representation and thing represented should be identical.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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(dict :label "SX and Dennett" :href "/sx/(etc.(philosophy.dennett))"
:summary "Real patterns, intentional stance, and multiple drafts — Dennett's philosophy of mind as a framework for understanding SX.")
(dict :label "S-Existentialism" :href "/sx/(etc.(philosophy.existentialism))"
:summary "Existence precedes essence — Sartre, Camus, and the absurd freedom of writing a Lisp for the web.")))
:summary "Existence precedes essence — Sartre, Camus, and the absurd freedom of writing a Lisp for the web.")
(dict :label "Platonic SX" :href "/sx/(etc.(philosophy.platonic-sx))"
:summary "The allegory of the cave, the theory of Forms, and why a self-defining hypermedium participates in something Plato would have recognized.")))
(define specs-nav-items (list
{:label "Core" :href "/sx/(language.(spec.core))" :children (list