{"collection":"Sacred Texts: The Classics","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_cla_plotenn_enn128_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_cla_plotenn_enn128_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_cla_plotenn_enn128_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/plotenn/enn128.htm","summary":"7. Empedokles in identifying his \"elements\" with Matter is refuted by their decay. Anaxagoras, in identifying his \"primal-combination\" with Matter- to which he allots no mere aptness to any and every nature or quality but the effective possession of all- withdraws in this way the very Intellectual-Principle he had introduced; for this Mind is not to him the bestower of shape, of Forming Idea; and it is co-aeval with Matter, not its prior.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SECOND ENNEAD: FOURTH TRACTATE: Section 7","tradition":"Sacred Texts: The Classics","translated_text":null,"word_count":336}