Sounds to me like your personal monitor is set to a split-screen view.
On one side is Platonic thinking: start with big things and work down to particulars.
On the other side is Aristotelian thinking: start with particulars and work up to the big things.
On the Platonic side you have ideals like the Good, the True, and the Beautiful. God is the ultimate Ideal. From these ideals you work your way down.
On the Aristotelian side you have all bits of data that come your way, including the findings of science. From these particulars you work your way up.
The view on one side informs and corrects the view on the other, you say. Your ongoing task is to feather and eventually eliminate any line dividing the two views.
Is that a fair representation of the situation?
You're aware, I know, that Aristotle's approach won out over Plato's in the Renaissance. The scientific method is Aristotle's baby. Those who work in the sciences excel at this way of thinking, as you see, and many are content to keep the Aristotelian landscape on their monitors full-screen.
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Edited by Archer Opterix, : typo repair.
Archer
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