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.
Aməšar wan Platon ad batu wan Platon ilan assinən tirtay ən tənawen, əden ɣas musnaten,falas anəzgam wan Platon atwəlkamanid ad tijra tadutet fal wi iknan atwəzy ən kal Pythagore win Grèce taruwat, aɣelnen adunya təkal