{"collection":"Sacred Texts: The Classics","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_cla_plotenn_enn572_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_cla_plotenn_enn572_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_cla_plotenn_enn572_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/enn572.htm","summary":"12. It follows that we must allow contrariety to Quantity: whenever we speak of great and small, our notions acknowledge this contrariety by evolving opposite images, as also when we refer to many and few; indeed, \"few\" and \"many\" call for similar treatment to \"small\" and \"great.\"\n\"Many,\" predicated of the inhabitants of a house, does duty for \"more\": \"few\" people are said to be in the theatre instead of \"less.\"\n\"Many,\" again, necessarily involves a large numerical plurality. This plurality can\u2026","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: THIRD TRACTATE: Section 12","tradition":"Sacred Texts: The Classics","translated_text":null,"word_count":343}