{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/plotenn/enn520.htm","path":"cla/plotenn/enn520.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/plotenn/enn520.htm","text":"14. The Academy and the Lyceum are places, and parts of Place, just as \"above,\" \"below,\" \"here\" are species or parts of Place; the difference is of minuter delimitation.\nIf then \"above,\" \"below,\" \"the middle\" are places- Delphi, for example, is the middle [of the earth]- and \"near-the-middle\" is also a place- Athens, and of course the Lyceum and the other places usually cited, are near the middle- what need have we to go further and seek beyond Place, admitting as we do that we refer in every instance to a place?\nIf, however, we have in mind the presence of one thing in another, we are not speaking of a single entity, we are not expressing a single notion.\nAnother consideration: when we say that a man is here, we present a relation of the man to that in which he is, a relation of the container to the contained. Why then do we not class as a relative whatever may be produced from this relation?\nBesides, how does \"here\" differ from \"at Athens\"? The demonstrative \"here\" admittedly signifies place; so, then, does \"at Athens\": \"at Athens\" therefore belongs to the category of Place.\nAgain, if \"at Athens\" means \"is at Athens,\" then the \"is\" as well as the place belongs to the predicate; but this cannot be right: we do not regard \"is a quality\" as predicate, but \"a quality.\"\nFurthermore, if \"in time,\" \"in place\" are to be ranged under a category other than that applying to time and place, why not a separate category for \"in a vessel\"? Why not distinct categories for \"in Matter,\" \"in a subject,\" \"a part in a whole,\" \"a whole in its parts,\" \"a genus in its species,\" \"a species in a genus\"? We are certainly on the way to a goodly number of categories.","title":"The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: FIRST TRACTATE: Section 14","type":"page"}